lingerer

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

An idle lingerer on the wayside's road, He gathers up his work and yawns away; A little longer, ere the tiresome load Shall be reduced to ashes or to clay.

From Violets and Other Tales by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

A storm came, and strewed the beach with kelp, and blew over half the bath-houses; and then the hardiest lingerer ceased to talk of staying through October.

From The Story of a Play A Novel by Howells, William Dean

One, two, three days went by, and still Mr. Lyon was a lingerer at Woodbine Lodge; and during most of that time he was alone and in earnest conference with Mr. Markland.

From The Good Time Coming by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter