On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
For the listener; for the lingerer with a love glides. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginations and Reveries] Reference
TARRY thou yet, late lingerer in the twilights glory. From Wordnik.com. [A Call of the Sidhe] Reference
With all is the beautiful lingerer in our crowded cities a favorite. From Wordnik.com. [Wreaths of Friendship A Gift for the Young] Reference
At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind. From Wordnik.com. [Ungava] Reference
When that effect did not seem sufficiently deep, he called here and there upon a lingerer for applause. From Wordnik.com. [Phoebe, Junior] Reference
Police found the lardly luggage lingerer on the Plaza and told her that she'd be trespassing if she went back in there. From Wordnik.com. [Arcata Eye] Reference
Upi, or the Archer, stretched out on a long cloud in the East; who forthwith resolved to make an example of the unwilling lingerer. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
This poor hesitating lingerer, too much at home in the city of destruction to get out of it even to save his life, has plenty of brothers to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference
I hear the cheery notes of my old acquaintance Tommy quail; but too late for the whip-poor-will, (though I heard one solitary lingerer night before last.). From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Play A Novel] Reference
Most Americans would consider it fair for Switzerland or Mexico or Russia or Ethiopia to jail and definitely to deport an unlawful American entrant or lingerer. From Wordnik.com. [MyDD] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
Major Luard's revolver disposed of one lingerer; but the Allies generally fired right and left, and pushed on to the right, so as to sweep the wall upwards towards the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [There & Back] Reference
"Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference
"You see," said one lingerer, Omar Ali, "it was just a show. From Wordnik.com. [Behind The Breakdown] Reference
“lingerer wave,” and in ii. 217 it repeats the preposterous misprint of “his glee” from the 1st ed. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Lake] Reference
This cold is a lingerer. From Wordnik.com. [What not to wear « knitnut.net] Reference
Or mystic lingerer from of old. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Travel and other verses] Reference
At length a line of barges snatched him from the sight of the lingerer; and Ned, slowly turning away, muttered, -- "Yes. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
Hence! thou lingerer, light!. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Reference
Yon parting lingerer wave adieu. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
A later lingerer; yet the revelry. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRELUDE BOOK SECOND] Reference
A lingerer still, for the sunset hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
I love thee, flower, as a slow lingerer. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference
An idle lingerer on the wayside's road. From Wordnik.com. [Violets and Other Tales] Reference
THOU art no lingerer in monarch's hall. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woman, With Other Poems] Reference
The latest lingerer of the forest train. From Wordnik.com. [AN EVENING WALK ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY] Reference
Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
That came long since, a lingerer by the pool. From Wordnik.com. [XV. Et Tu In Arcadia Vixisti] Reference
Nor am I a lingerer. From Wordnik.com. [DCBlogs] Reference
Long time lingerer and new poster. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
A lingerer. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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