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

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 Mitchell, Donald G.

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 The Story of a Play A Novel by Howells, William Dean

Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter