Lingering

Examples

• There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I am sorry, because I could have wished to keep up a little lingering fragment of respect for him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He has seen my solitary, lingering death. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Glad to see you here again, sir, said Pratt, lingering to adjust a blind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Old Sedley's lingering illness and death supervened, after which a meeting was for some time impossible. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He watched the lingering way she took her feet from the ground. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This done, I rested, leaning against the tree; lingering, like any other mourner, beside a newly-sodded grave. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I felt reluctant to be present, when Mr. Peggotty first met his sister and Ham; and made Mr. Omer my excuse for lingering behind. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Why is he lingering here? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They gossiped together over the corpse, related anecdotes, with embellishments of her lingering decline, and its real or supposed cause. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr Wegg slowly subdues his ironical tone and his lingering irritation, and resumes his pipe. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But for thee is reserved a long and lingering death, to which theirs were luxury. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• After lingering a few seconds he passed on again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Because, if any doubt is still lingering in our minds, a few commonplace instances will satisfy us of the truth of what I am saying. Plato. The Republic.
• Eustacia remained within the bank looking at the fire, intending to go indoors, yet lingering still. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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