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

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

When that effect did not seem sufficiently deep, he called here and there upon a lingerer for applause.

From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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)