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 Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
We had sight of George III. in our last chapter, and we shall catch sight of him again from time to time; for he was a persistent lingerer, and a most obstinate liver.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
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 T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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 Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
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