lingerer

This ship itself was part of shadow, a lingerer beyond the Core - and I?

She repeated those sentiments, with variation, for nearly an hour before the last lingerer trickled out.

Some of the most affecting moments in poetry happen when a born barreller stops to linger or a natural lingerer has to barrel.

"A Reply to The Lingerer"

"He's not a lingerer."

Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer.

But Mr. Schiffman did not work the last shift on Saturday night, and as 6 A.M. approached, he had become something of a lingerer himself.

Whose eye explored the dim arcade Impatient of the uncoming shade - Shy elf, or dryad pale and cold, Or mystic lingerer from of old: Vainly.

Small and animated, mischievous even in the responsible role of big-band conductor, the trumpeter Roy Hargrove is a wassailer, a late-night lingerer who's in it for the impact, the thrills.

Everyone moved so slowly that they couldn't detect the undead lingerer amongst them, and yet the lingerer would be able to pick and choose a conversation or person at ease.

For behaving, in short, in a way that even I, an inveterate lingerer before zoo enclosures and fish tanks, would have considered preposterous had I not heard Anderson's real-life octopus stories earlier that day.

Whenever they had gone on a class trip or a tour, his son had always been the last one in the line, the lingerer, the ... What was the word one of his teachers on the Enterprise had used?

From what I had once called myself, "The Amateur Parisian," I grew (or declined) into a water-side prowler, a lingerer on wharves, a frequenter of shy neighbourhoods, a scraper of acquaintance with eccentric characters.

The intransitive (very inactive) verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning "laggard, lingerer," rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, "long," associated with "slow."

When my sense had recovered its shock, and my eyes looked dizzily round, the charge of the beasts had swept by; and of all the wild tribes which had invaded the magical circle, the only lingerer was the brown Death-adder, coiled close by the spot where my head had rested.