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Linger

verb

(past & past part. lingered; pres. part. lingering)

Remain present although waning or gradually dying.

Be about. Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry. "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

Leave slowly and hesitantly. Synonym: tarry.

Take one's time; proceed slowly. Synonym: dawdle.

Move to and fro. Synonym: hover.

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"Linger" Quotes from Famous Books

... the rose arbor he stopped. He had not the least idea as to the direction Nora had taken, and so was puzzled about the next thing to do. But after the fright she had gotten he felt sure that she'd not linger about the little patch of ground surrounding ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre

... supplied with Christian tracts and books. After fourteen days spent in travelling slowly through the populous country, preaching and distributing books, etc., we reached a large town called Shih-mun-wan, and here, finding that my supply of literature was exhausted, I determined not to linger over the rest of the journey, but to reach Ningpo as speedily as possible, via the city ...

— A Retrospect • James Hudson Taylor

... being the persons whom I had warned the night before. Perhaps I should have made sure of this. But in any case these were practised waits. Their whine rushed in at my open window with a vigor that proved them no tyros. Besides, the night was a cold one, and I could not linger at an open casement. I nodded pleasantly to the waits and pointed to my door. Then I ran downstairs and let them in. They came up to my chambers with me. As I have said, the lapse of time prevents my remembering ...

— My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke • J. M. Barrie

... me at last!—Oh Natusha,—Natusha!" It seemed as if that endearing diminutive could not leave his lips, so did he linger over it, while he pressed her small, gloved hands passionately between ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... very careful. They had only a hundred pounds left; he must be careful not to risk this money foolishly—it was his very life-blood. If he were to lose all this money, he wouldn't only sign his own death warrant, but also hers. He might linger on a long while—there was no knowing, but he would never be able to do any work, that was certain (unless he went out to Egypt); the doctor had said so, and then it would be she who would have to support him. And if God were merciful enough to take him off at once he ...

— Esther Waters • George Moore

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