Lingered
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And, after that, we bumped into each other periodically, particularly in the context of the war in Afghanistan, which has
lingered
on nearly a decade after Holbrooke’s passing.
Then far away, beyond the wood, on the other hills, she heard a vague prolonged cry, a voice which lingered, and in silence she heard it mingling like music with the last pulsations of her throbbing nerves.
Madame de Renal looked at the large tears which
lingered
on the cheeks (so pallid at first and now so rosy) of this young peasant.
Dunwoodie had
lingered
in front of the cottage, after he paid his parting compliments, with an unwillingness to return, that he thought proceeded from his solicitude for his wounded friends.
The dragoons
lingered
on the shore till the last moment, and then they reluctantly commenced their own retreat back to the main body of the corps.
While facing the northern entrance to the vale, her eyes were uniformly fastened on the point where the road was suddenly lost by the intervention of a hill; and at each turn, as she lost sight of the spot, she
lingered
until an impatient movement of her sister quickened her pace to an even motion with that of her own.
But something occurred to him, and he
lingered
considering.
"And the old Grenadiers, too, who were not so active as they used to be, they could not keep up; and yet if they
lingered
the peasants would catch them and crucify them to the barn doors with their feet up and a fire under their heads, which was a pity for these fine old soldiers.
The yellow gleams of light from the fire continued to dance on ceiling and walls, the soft odour of roses
lingered
in the air, the crackling of the wood broke the silence with short, sharp reports.
'Come along, then;'and the party having traversed several dark passages, and being joined by Mr. Tupman, who had
lingered
behind to snatch a kiss from Emma, for which he had been duly rewarded with sundry pushings and scratchings, arrived at the parlour door.
Every one had a friendly nod and a kind word for "poor Mrs. Edmunds"; and sometimes, when she stopped to exchange a few words with a neighbour at the conclusion of the service in the little row of elm-trees which leads to the church porch, or
lingered
behind to gaze with a mother's pride and fondness upon her healthy boy, as he sported before her with some little companions, her careworn face would lighten up with an expression of heartfelt gratitude; and she would look, if not cheerful and happy, at least tranquil and contented.
But though he was afraid to make up to them, he couldn't bear to lose sight of them; so when they walked faster he walked faster, when they
lingered
he lingered, and when they stopped he stopped; and so they might have gone on, until the darkness prevented them, if Kate had not looked slyly back, and encouragingly beckoned Nathaniel to advance.
Seeing that the stranger still lingered, he beckoned Sam Weller to follow his master in, and shut the door in his face.
In the galleries themselves, and more especially on the stair- cases, there
lingered
a great number of people, who came there, some because their rooms were empty and lonesome, others because their rooms were full and hot; the greater part because they were restless and uncomfortable, and not possessed of the secret of exactly knowing what to do with themselves.
He
lingered
behind, until Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass had disappeared, and then fervently clenched Mr. Pickwick's hand, with an expression of face in which deep and mighty resolve was fearfully blended with the very concentrated essence of gloom.
Some doubts always
lingered
in her mind when they parted, which could only be removed by another half hour's discourse with himself.
They
lingered
by the royal menagerie of starved tigers, and the cages of the two tame hunting-leopards, hooded like hawks, that slept, and yawned, and scratched on their two bedsteads by the main gate of the city; and he showed her the ponderous door of the great gate itself, studded with foot-long spikes against the attacks of that living battering-ram, the elephant.
How he
lingered
long and lovingly over the last click, applied his ear to the instrument as though it could answer, and turning with a large, sweet smile, said:"Finis Babu; make a note of that," and swept forth, chanting the war-cry of his State:"It is not wealth, nor rank, nor state, But get-up-and-get that makes men great."
"Yes, I was there, and
lingered
for a quarter of an hour or so.
On his retiring to his tent, many who had
lingered
in the lists, to look upon and form conjectures concerning him, also dispersed.
Higg, the son of Snell, withdrew into the crowd, but, interested in the fate of his benefactress,
lingered
until he should learn her doom, even at the risk of again encountering the frown of that severe judge, the terror of which withered his very heart within him.
When Oblonsky had gone down to his room and, after again washing, had put on his frilled nightshirt and got into bed, Levin still
lingered
in his room talking about various tries and unable to ask what he wanted to know.
Several patients
lingered
near by, gazing at this lady as at something out of the common.
At the roots of the thick grass the morning dew still lingered, and Koznyshev, afraid of wetting his feet, asked his brother to drive him across the meadow to the willow clump near which perch could be caught.
Father was in the habit of carrying into the dining-room grate the fire remaining in the classroom stove; and, little by little, the last boys who had
lingered
behind left the chilled building, thick with clouds of smoke.
This done, I
lingered
yet a little longer: the flowers smelt so sweet as the dew fell; it was such a pleasant evening, so serene, so warm; the still glowing west promised so fairly another fine day on the morrow; the moon rose with such majesty in the grave east.
I
lingered
in the long passage to which this led, separating the front and back rooms of the third storey: narrow, low, and dim, with only one little window at the far end, and looking, with its two rows of small black doors all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebeard's castle.
I
lingered
till the sun went down amongst the trees, and sank crimson and clear behind them.
"If you are hurt, and want help, sir, I can fetch some one either from Thornfield Hall or from Hay.""Thank you: I shall do: I have no broken bones,--only a sprain;" and again he stood up and tried his foot, but the result extorted an involuntary "Ugh!"Something of daylight still lingered, and the moon was waxing bright: I could see him plainly.
I
lingered
at the gates; I
lingered
on the lawn; I paced backwards and forwards on the pavement; the shutters of the glass door were closed; I could not see into the interior; and both my eyes and spirit seemed drawn from the gloomy house--from the grey-hollow filled with rayless cells, as it appeared to me--to that sky expanded before me,--a blue sea absolved from taint of cloud; the moon ascending it in solemn march; her orb seeming to look up as she left the hill-tops, from behind which she had come, far and farther below her, and aspired to the zenith, midnight dark in its fathomless depth and measureless distance; and for those trembling stars that followed her course; they made my heart tremble, my veins glow when I viewed them.
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