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Definition of Lingers
1. linger [v] - See also: linger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lingers
Literary usage of Lingers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Seasons by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch (1842)
"His harden'd lingers deck the gaudy Spring; Without him, Summer were an arid
waste ; Nor to the autumnal months could thus transmit Those full, mature, ..."
2. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... Saw down the old woman, concluding the ceremony by sawing in two the figure
of an old woman representing Lent. In Naples there still lingers ..."
3. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"... but their memory lingers like an echo in the name it bears. Cherish it,
inhabitants of the two-hilled city, once three-hilled; ye who have said to the ..."
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