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lingerer



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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

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

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

Whose eye explored the dim arcade Impatient of the uncoming shade— Shy elf, or dryad pale and cold, Or mystic lingerer from of old: Vainly.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.

From Ungava by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)




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