lingerer
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2019
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
“Master Constable” addressed the lingerer: “Disperge,”—a difficult operation for an individual,—“disperge, I say; we can’t have no burlash here!”
From Old New England Traits by George Lunt
At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Joseph Cottle