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Definition of Linger over
1. Verb. Delay.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Linger Over
Literary usage of Linger over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Diplomatist by Horace Rumbold (1902)
"I left Vienna and my many friends there with sincere regret, but had no time to
linger over the partings. END OF VOL. I. Printed by ISAI. ..."
2. Letters and Writings of James Greenleaf Croswell: Late Master of the Bearley by James Greenleaf Croswell (1917)
"It is not good to linger over the tomb of the body. I don't know why I say these
things. Forgive me if they are not right. Yours very affectionately, JAMES ..."
3. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics by Eduard Zeller (1897)
"We cannot, however, here linger over 1 Of the so-called three Aristotelian unities
of the French school, only the 'unity of action' is to be found, ..."
4. The High Adventure by Hugh De Sélincourt (1908)
"He knew quite well what he was going to read ; but he waited a little to linger
over the strange joy of expectancy, to remember the bad days when the ..."
5. Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock (1908)
"In other pieces, the slower moving stories and lyrics, the children are willing
to linger over the details at the first reading. It is all but impossible to ..."
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