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  • adjective superlative form of tarry: most tarry.

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Examples

  • Commander of the Faithful I will not consent save on one condition, and if thou ask me what it is, I reply that Al – Hajjaj lead my camel to the town where thou tarriest barefoot and clad as he is.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • ‘My name is Duck, and I am of the bird kind;’ and I added, ‘But thou, why tarriest thou in this place till this time?’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

    Acts 22. 1999

  • 'Flee away,' said his Soul, 'for ever doth the sea come nigher, and if thou tarriest it will slay thee.

    The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

  • 'Flee away,' said his Soul, 'for ever doth the sea come nigher, and if thou tarriest it will slay thee.

    The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

  • Draupadi, from jealousy, spoke unto him, saying, 'Why tarriest thou here, O son of Kunti?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Thou hast classed together the hovel and the palace, glowing with equal solemn grandeur, so that no man can tell the one from the other when the crape upon the door betokens that thou tarriest there.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • Then, why did not even Christ himself speak peace to the soul of Saul, but sent him to Damascus and directed Ananias to tell him what he must do, who said to him, "And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord"?

    To Infidelity and Back

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