lingerer
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2019
At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
When that effect did not seem sufficiently deep, he called here and there upon a lingerer for applause.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
At length the last lingerer passed the two by the door, and Brown, approaching, spoke to them.
From The Brown Study by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
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
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