lingerer
Example Sentences
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2019
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 Sir Lewis Morris
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
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 Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson
