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    1. Kofi AwoonorWhen our tears are dry on the shoreand the fishermen carry their nets homeand the seagulls return to bird islandand the laughter of the children recedes at night,there shall still linger here the communion we forged,the feast of oneness which we partook of


    2. To practice my religion, linger with Luray the next time you wake her for shift change


    3. She didn't linger in the shower but while she was in there she wondered at the difference between these two kids


    4. The track climbs steadily coming out onto the top of the ridge of hills … the view is breathtaking but Berndt doesn’t linger


    5. properties, and Granddad said that they were advised not to linger


    6. He let that linger awhile, then answered, “Why you seemed reluctant to come here


    7. Desa and Alan didn't linger, at a pleasant strolling pace you are on the bridge a long while anyway


    8. however, he was curious enough to linger and see if the


    9. more often than not, the think will linger


    10. ” His grin widened, seeming all too eager for her to linger

    11. linger before resuming his revelation amid the driest of chuckles


    12. The wiry man did not linger, staying just long enough to deliver the message and get back on his route


    13. So he decided to linger a bit longer in the stables, brushing down his horse, filling her trough with feed and giving her fresh water


    14. Granted, they never wanted to linger on the details


    15. We let the silence linger for a while


    16. Steve decided not to approach the block, choosing instead to linger at the bottom of the access tunnel


    17. didn’t linger, well, not more than a few times


    18. Either way, it did not inspire one to linger


    19. Nevertheless, they never linger around walking silly patrols on a general's map or chase statistics since they know and we knew that surgical strikes are not done on divisional strength


    20. Unfortunately, I was not permitted to linger long over my new fears

    21. “Don’t linger on what is gone but concentrate on what is still around you


    22. She moaned, and turned her chair to give him vantage, wanting the build-up to linger but, as she diddled, he swelled and grew to full height like an emerging sapling and, within moments, she was overcome with a spasmodic orgasm


    23. Each man could smell the woman’s perfume clinging to the neckline of the charcoal top, it was an opaque mixture of honey and vanilla that he knew would linger in his minds much longer than the woman that wore it


    24. She felt a prickly kind of tingle linger where his hand had touched


    25. The longer we linger, the longer the Dark has to prepare for war


    26. I think his eyes linger on Peter at that last line, but they move on quickly enough that I’m not sure


    27. But some dirt is destined to linger


    28. Due to linger in his mind he is dirty - although he tell him the reason is not the case, he began to spend a lot of time to wash the filth of their imagination


    29. I was the only one interested in it so we couldn’t linger there


    30. Again I was once more the only one interested in that room, so we couldn’t linger there either

    31. Karl let his mind linger slightly on Colin, and veered off back to the new tenant


    32. Sacrifices linger to stretch the moment


    33. Instead, their minds would sink into some thoughts or dreams of their own and linger on till the last sip


    34. I pause and linger on his wrist for a few seconds before I wipe my mouth and look up to his face


    35. The stuff could linger in


    36. sleep, but worst is that once we feed them they could linger, sick


    37. Within the Darkness Shall Evil Linger


    38. He remembered his amazement as he saw the Egyptians only linger on their fringe and then, as suddenly, ride off in the direction of the City


    39. Only that small remnant continued to linger, still refusing to believe that the end of the world, as they had known it, was soon to be at hand


    40. 23 you spear bearers of the tyrant why do you linger? 24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery and not changing at their pity they led him to the fire: 25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils

    41. For the sake of her land, she refused to linger any more in this place where she had lived and worked for so long, and instead, lifted the curtain and entered once more into the night


    42. He remembered his amazement as he saw the Egyptians only linger


    43. Only that small remnant continued to linger, still refusing to believe that the


    44. “Yes, but I didn’t linger


    45. Afterwards, neither party had wished to linger


    46. linger in my ears for quite a while


    47. Only the echoes and the memory remain; but they will linger


    48. Not wishing to linger near the repugnant smells, they continued towards the only exit, a long stairway of stone paving leading down, worn smooth through years of use


    49. ’ His mind appeared to linger on an old memory


    50. Not wishing to linger, they spurred their horses up the incline and away from the scene








































    1. They hugged sensuously and his hands lingered on her chest and ass while she played them over him and straddled his leg


    2. Though they were less than a thousand miles from the equator, snow lingered deep into Morningday on the dense forest of shaftwood that coated the hills miles above


    3. Her arms were folded as she still lingered at the table, she frowned and slowly shook her soft blond curls, "And I don't think those ghosts can help you


    4. As the locals hooked up and went to their Dusksleeps, another couple lingered for the sleep at the inn, toasting some morsels from the left over stew in the fire


    5. I rattled the handle and lingered, cheeky curiosity I suppose, and I didn't have long to wait


    6. He lingered a bit longer than usual, but the hot water felt good and seemed to refresh him


    7. It was quite warm already, she had lingered in the bath and probably used a whole bag of fuel


    8. She gasped in relief at her lost footing so quickly checked by his instant reflex, and lingered without struggle in his arms perhaps longer than really necessary to regain her balance


    9. “It's a step into the past,” remarked Henry as they lingered at a little shop displaying the local varieties of cheeses and woolens


    10. ” His attention lingered upon Chloe

    11. colleague ignored the hint and lingered beside him


    12. It lingered throughout and hung in the air like a fog over the arena


    13. The heat forced him to speed up his descent; his fingertips burning the longer they lingered on a grip


    14. In the back of my mind lingered


    15. But the memory of Roberto still lingered


    16. "So where is this place?" he asked as they lingered over the sweetcakes


    17. Her nibs were dark for her coloration and they lingered there for awhile, she asked him the names of some of the megastructures and chimneys on the Eastern Slope but he wasn't very interested in that


    18. "How in the dead?" Theodorous' hand lingered a moment longer on the hilt of his long sword before he let it go, placing his hands at his sides, no doubt remembering his last encounter with an elf


    19. His axe lingered on his shoulder


    20. Some claimed that the presence of those slain in the blast lingered on, haunting the area in a ghostly form of undeath

    21. The two men browsed and lingered for


    22. She lingered for a moment longer, pretending to wipe up crumbs she’d noticed on the


    23. But amidst this contentment lingered the weight


    24. the stars, the beautiful smell of wet earth lingered on, wafted by a


    25. A presence stirred, one that lingered over the waters there


    26. The sweet scent of smoke still lingered


    27. Xonia’s scent still lingered in the air; faint, but unmistakeable


    28. A few grains of the addictive, high-inducing purple powder still lingered below his nostrils


    29. An image of him in all his naked glory lingered in her mind as she averted Helda’s eyes


    30. They had lingered in the great pool room for some time, listening to the rushing falls and allowing their thoughts to continue straying amid their memories

    31. Edrimer lingered a while longer, laying there on the floor, still trying to wrap his mind around the man who had once been his brother


    32. She lingered there, looking happily into his face


    33. Something compelled him, however, to reach back into his long robe’s pocket and retrieve the same note he had lingered on earlier


    34. Carius lingered with the Quartermaster for some minutes until the latter handed him a fresh, folded light uniform


    35. The effects it had on both of us lingered on painfully


    36. Also were there humans, yes, but they lingered at the back of the army


    37. We had little time to cover them properly with dirt although we tried but the stench still lingered and the whole peninsula smelled like a charnel house


    38. His kiss lingered there


    39. His eyes lingered on her, but it was an honest appraisal


    40. When he had helped Rosemary on with her coat his hands had lingered on her shoulders just for an instant

    41. The Colonel looked to where the smoke still lingered and then said


    42. His thoughts lingered on Kaishel as he crossed into the Alit’aren camp


    43. “Any filly would be skittish about going into a stable where the ghost of another lingered


    44. Her sweet smell still lingered in the air around him, his skin tingling from her gentle touch


    45. She lingered just a bit, and I was


    46. His gaze lingered above Sicarius’s eyebrows


    47. The other questions lingered in her mind, but she probably was walking the line of being annoying, so she merely gave him a wave and left to prepare a meal


    48. lingered a moment, in hopes that he might come back, then took her


    49. Kay knew well the fields where the horses liked to graze this time of year – the clover lingered there long past fall, and the winds were blocked by the edge of a small cliff


    50. At first it was strange, the feeling that there was something we had to do lingered










































    1. A part of me, the lingering essence of the creature in the box, wanted to lash out at him, but I kept my calm, breathing slowly, not wanting to antagonise the beast


    2. In Miranda’s case, three lingering emotions had been


    3. ' I began, he nods encouragingly, a half smile lingering around his mouth, so I go on


    4. Glancing around the room apparently unconcerned, Chrissie noted that Chas was standing at one end of the table, his eyes speculative, a faint smile lingering on his lips


    5. And those remaining, very few, who through bigotry or sheer ignorance had despised the little family's presence in the village, now had to be very cautious indeed to at least never publicly hint at any lingering misgivings regarding the Livingsons they might still privately harbor


    6. With the smells and sounds of the city still lingering in his thoughts, Harry opened Gibbon's text and struggled to focus on the desperate last days of Romulus Augustus, for which he felt sure he had now a better understanding


    7. He can smell cheap scotch on the man's breath and the last lingering scent of medicated shampoo


    8. “We also wish to state clearly, so that there may be no lingering doubt, that you have again vanquished our worst fears


    9. And he noticed something was definitely lingering just in the wings of Chloe's happiness that did not seem to arise from their serendipitous reunion


    10. were the lingering images he would have of Paris, he had

    11. The Stinking Toe Tree has ‘big fat toe’ branches and edible fruit that that leaves a foul lingering smell!


    12. She was mesmerized by the lingering purple in the tropical dusk


    13. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard


    14. knowledge that they didn’t have the luxury of lingering as


    15. comfortably as he could, and, with one last, lingering gaze


    16. If there truly was any kind of lingering danger, she had to be extremely cautious with her speech


    17. After depositing some of her gear and spiced wine in her pleasingly spacious room, she darted back down the stairs, almost running into a lingering Sorex on the way


    18. Which meant she’d suffered no lingering effects from the swan’s rape


    19. She dodged, sprinted and leapt her way down the hill, relieved to not see Mercer lingering outside of the rocky shelter


    20. To see icicles in your dream indicate a problem or concern that has been lingering over you

    21. Exhaustion and great hunger forced them to dis-regard the lingering dangers evident in the scampering shadows and shuffles in the gloom


    22. The lingering darkness in Nerissa’s mind told her it would be best to silence Hesper


    23. The hum of lingering fireflies and babbling waters were the only sounds on the breeze


    24. There was a haze lingering about as well, one that softened the rich colors of the Rift’s foliage normally brown and striking green - but she paid it no mind


    25. “…No,” Was the delayed and leaden reply, “I…I’m quite confident that it’s lingering guilt rather than worry


    26. The sun lit the lingering darkness into a golden, shimmering mosaic


    27. Yet seeing see the room so starkly bereft of everything that personalised their home left a lingering sense of violation


    28. Earlier, he had been acutely aware of the lingering charge of violence which hung in the room like a dark veil, but now it simply looked like a cold mess


    29. That light touch of his hands, lingering again, for a moment


    30. cleared his throat before slowly looking over the other men seated at the table, his gaze lingering on

    31. Adem still had lingering symptoms of the taint, despite accepting his evening Healing before setting out on the streets


    32. His lips were warm and inviting, lingering on hers


    33. My, how things were humming in North London that day, hence their not so extensive enquiries, but their rather lingering interrogation at the fracas


    34. Provided ample opportunities to self-destruct, that child soon acquires disagreeable habits that, reinforced by common attitudes, establishes the rocky foundations of a society populated by lingering, single-minded adolescents who, guided by their own (―exceptional‖) rules of conduct, acquire self-centered and perhaps anti-social points of view devolving into a collection of interchangeable parts reflecting the questionable character of that society‘s lowest forms that must negatively impact its social, cultural and political institutions including schools, churches, political organizations, judicial system, the news media, corporations, all! A free and open society should never impose arbitrary limits or draw uncertain conclusions as to how an individual should (otherwise) think or act however eccentric or unconventional such attitudes may appear; although that society, by example, should seek to broaden exemplary manners and customs essential to the maintenance of proper form if that society hopes to function effectively


    35. Nevertheless, how much longer must the average fan see their season(s) high jacked by self-centered, lingering adolescents; many of whom don‘t appreciate the value of a hard earned dollar? I remember when it was only a game


    36. “My mother passed away when we were young, after a lingering disease


    37. Children require the guidance and unconditional support of parents who should properly behave like parents rather than the lingering adolescents oftentimes portrayed on television


    38. She had always enjoyed the closeness that grooming had brought between her and her mother; the idle chatter, the intimate touching, the lingering caresses


    39. His voice was still Boyd’s and yet I could hear a saddened tone lingering on his lips


    40. What our parents have bequeathed was a generation of lingering adolescents who continue to view the world as their own private playgrounds

    41. What was the point in speaking? I simply replied with a lingering kiss


    42. As the large band of badgers marched towards their destiny, the column passed directly beneath Cherva's hiding place and he stared down at them in contempt, picturing their lingering deaths in the coming battle


    43. The servant raised his eyes and tilted his head without moving his hand, lingering as if to say coffee should not be savored in that fashion


    44. Altaf smiled down at her, his eyes lingering on the red bruise that had begun to show on the side of her face


    45. A little lingering sun sensitivity—heck, acne medications could cause that


    46. He was in charge—he could help, some lingering part of Tara’s brain thought


    47. I just needed to acknowledge how far I had come and not let the lingering doubt of cancer prevail


    48. Upon returning in the late afternoon, she retired to her room for a lingering shower, followed by room service dinner in bed


    49. When it was over and done, all that remained was lingering regret and memories that continued to drift in at the oddest moments


    50. Her dark hair encircled them in a cocoon of love filled with lingering gazes into the depths of the other’s eyes








































    1. texture that lingers


    2. Mohammed lingers at the serving cart in the shadows


    3. The spectre of death already lingers in the rooms of the house, yet neurotic aunt Despina moves around with a liveliness I have never seen on her before


    4. It cannot be the music we heard that nightThat still lingers in the chambers of memory


    5. ten years ago, and the smoke lingers


    6. The delicious smell of wood smoke was the first thing I became aware of those early Sophian mornings and I used to think it came with the perfume from the wisteria that lingers around the charcoal soot-streaked ovens near our villa, but after talking with Theo I began to associate it with his recollection of the blaze in the forest on the mountainside


    7. He sort of knows this is one of those generational divides, but the basic prejudice lingers


    8. Billy rises from the chair, lingers a moment holding his daughter's hand and then steps back


    9. ‘And the flavour lingers in your mouth


    10. That the smoke lingers

    11. To dream that you have grown a tail represents an aspect of the past that still lingers with you


    12. And instead of sitting next to me, he lingers at the foot of my bed, his fingers fumbling over the hem of his shirt


    13. Peter lingers behind her, his arms crossed


    14. the memory that lingers; revelation in dreams and vision; the human mind; the ability to retain and recall events of the past


    15. Mom’s scent lingers in the fibers


    16. I’m electrified, and moisture floods my mouth as he lingers just above my lips, his right hand moving to my wet hair


    17. If not, and some of it still lingers, and Alilia ever has another child, that child will be in danger from me, as I will be protected from her child by our curse


    18. Hair's fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers


    19. Her children are probably grandparents themselves today and her memory of me has long faded, but each day I feel a little of the pain I must have caused her - the pain which still lingers in me


    20. Titan magic—what's left of it—still lingers

    21. The shadow lingers


    22. What an erotic time he gave me! How it lingers on in my memory! I’m not the one to let go this man


    23. When Jes returns home the sweet smell of gas still lingers in the room


    24. France actually came very close to declaring war on Britain and bitterness lingers amongst the French to this day regarding this incident


    25. what lingers on in the souls of men,


    26. The effort of creating becomes burdensome when we realize that we also share in the creation of all the suffering that lingers deep inside each of us


    27. in raids of bushmen lingers on; the sound of the dead


    28. spirit lingers between this world and the other


    29. nothing can prepare him or her for what lingers around


    30. When cheers are all gone, what lingers on

    31. “Even when you’re not in the same room, the scent lingers


    32. the examination, but if you have not learnt to tackle your fear, then the fear lingers on


    33. The aftermath gloom lingers for centuries and those who directly suffered the consequences may not be people, who were anyway connected with the war, or maybe they were much against any kind of violence and war, but since their countries were locked horn into it, they had to bear the brunt anyway


    34. Such moments of first experience in love making especially with a life partner lingers in a woman’s mind till she is old enough to remember only few things


    35. I watch the hand that often lingers over


    36. I continue to hold on to Anthony's hand a little longer and our gaze lingers safely in each other's


    37. All that lingers in the classroom is the fact that I have offended Maureen by mentioning her son's name


    38. selves have been abandoned, like the smell of garlic lingers in a


    39. The love we shared still lingers on,


    40. The pain still lingers to this day,

    41. The pre-independence mindset probably still lingers


    42. reply to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers


    43. are everywhere in evidence, and the best that wasin it still lingers


    44. “What’s in it for me?” lingers in the


    45. 'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music


    46. But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously


    47. Oh then! the fiery touch of his lingers


    48. ” I point to my groin where a smear of honey lingers


    49. For I have no friend but yourself upon earth, who am neglected and forgotten by my father, harassed and persecuted by my mother-in-law, and left to the sole companionship of a paralyzed and speechless old man, whose withered hand can no longer press mine, and who can speak to me with the eye alone, although there still lingers in his heart the warmest tenderness for his poor grandchild


    50. He lingers over images of Marie-Laure—her hands, her hair—even as he worries that to concentrate on them too long is to risk wearing them out













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    Synonyms for "linger"

    linger tarry dawdle footle hang around lallygag loaf loiter lollygag lounge lurk mess about mill about mill around hover amble drift stroll lag trail remain

    "linger" definitions

    remain present although waning or gradually dying


    be about


    leave slowly and hesitantly


    take one's time; proceed slowly


    move to and fro