lingerer

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

Thou couldst not keep Thy youth as now, if always on the breast Of love too late a lingerer thou hadst known Possession sate thee.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

Should I say rather that one after one the singing birds flitted from the strings, those telegraph wires betwixt the seen and the unseen, and now the last lingerer was gone?

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

"Come in!" said the changed voice that had wrought upon Phoebe's womanly compassion, as Jessie awaited the warrant to enter the sick-room—a faint-hearted lingerer upon the threshold.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

Thus baffled and friendless, I was about to depart, and stood a fearful lingerer on the isle which I had so dearly loved—when tidings were brought me of your approach.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph