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Sor Asunci6n said, as if she had asked a question and I was tarrying in my answer.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

They rode back with him into the forest, where Theodoric was tarrying with the Lady Herauda, and bent the knee before him.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

Then Erik went to the harbour, not far from which Frode was tarrying, and, the moment that he stepped out of the ship, tripped inadvertently, and came tumbling to the ground.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus

It was whilst he was tarrying there, that Ethelfleda his sister died at Tamworth, twelve nights before midsummer.

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)

While Mrs. Barbauld was tarrying at Geneva, her brother addressed a letter in verse to her: Yet one dear wish still struggles in my breast, And paints one darling object unpossessed.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville