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Sentences ending with lingering

Mr. Parr was awaiting him, and summoning his courage, hope battling against intuition, he opened the door into the now empty church and made his way toward the porch, where the sound of voices warned him that several persons were lingering. [9]

Short sentences using lingering

Another lingering dreary night--and hunger. [5]

More example sentences with the word lingering in them

A hundred more years and many of the barbarisms still lingering among us will, of course, have disappeared like witch-hanging. [6]
How admiringly they would gaze up at him in his high seat as he gloved himself with lingering deliberation, while some happy hostler held the bunch of reins aloft, and waited patiently for him to take it! [5]
The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
Eppelein cracked his whip against his leathern boot-tops; old Tetzel's leaden voice cried out to enquire where we were lingering, and a silken train came rustling down the stairs. [10]
Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near! [6]
However, his healthy vigor kept him lingering for many days and nights. [10]
It was not very singular that Elsie should be lingering in her old haunts, from which the change of season must soon drive her. [6]
Dorothy had come up to speak to her mother, Dr. Courtenay lingering impatient at her side. [9]
And Janet, lingering unconsciously in front of that very emporium where Lisehad been incarcerated, the Bagatelle, stared at the finery displayed there, at the blue tulle dress that might be purchased, she read, for $22.99. [9]
They only remained two or three days, but it so fell out that she increased her lingering cold, by a long walk over damp ground in thin shoes. [14]
In silence they turned for a last lingering look, and in silence went down the slope into the world again, and through the streets to the driveway of the Duncan house. [9]
And I have told her how singularly young Pamela is looking, and what a fine large fellow Sam is, and how ill the lingering syllable "my" to his name fits his port and figure. [5]
So, entrusting Whisker to the charge of a man who was lingering hard by in expectation of the Job, he suffered his companion to take his hand, and to lead him up the dark and narrow stairs. [12]
We have learned to go through the lingering routine of the table d'hote with patience, with serenity, with satisfaction. [5]
But now other things have to be done besides lingering with you; now I will show you that I am a man, now that Pentaur is to be saved. [10]
I took only the silverbound prayer-book, cast a lingering look at the old familiar objects dimly defined, and came out and locked the door again. [9]
She gave me the one lingering, anxious look, and opened the door. [9]
A few of the musicians were still lingering over the wine which the travelling merchants and artisans had ordered for them. [10]
There he died the loathsome and lingering death that all lepers die. [5]
Dorothy sat down, the light lingering in her eyes. [9]
I rode to the front and struck up an acquaintance with King Solomon-in-all-his-glory, and got him to show me his lingering eternity of a gun. [5]
After lingering till the 29th, without any suggestion of ascending the James, he sailed northward and made the lucky stroke of river exploration which immortalized him. [4]
Was it possible that a lingering doubt remained in her mind that to postpone her happiness would perhaps be to lose it? [9]
Certain old superstitions, still lingering in the mind of the public, and not yet utterly expelled from that of the profession, are at the bottom of this, or contribute to it largely. [3]
Instead of lingering starvation, I shall use swift arrows. [10]
She began to shiver soon after her return home, in spite of every precaution, and had a bad lingering sore throat and cold, which hung about her; and made her thin and weak. [14]
At this moment she was lingering over the scene before her. [11]
And the exile, separated from the beloved France so dear to his heart, died a lingering death on that rock and bequeathed his great deeds to posterity. [2]
This was a Senator of the worn-out and obsolete pattern; a man still lingering among the cobwebs of the past, and behind the spirit of the age. [5]
C. C.] And perhaps, Richard," he concluded, with a last lingering look at the old pile as he turned his horses, "perhaps some day, I shall remember what you told us at Brooks's. [9]
He rose, took one lingering look at the river, and followed her to the house. [9]
The front pages of the evening newspapers announced the accident to Hambleton Durrett, and added that Mrs. Durrett, who had been lingering in the city, had gone to her husband's bedside. [9]
I would wake of a morning with the knowledge of it, and be silent for half the day with some particle of a dream in my head, lingering like the burden of a song with its train of memories. [9]
Sure as the morning came, it found him lingering near the house to ask if she were well; and, morning, noon, or night, go where she would, he would forsake his playmates and his sports to bear her company. [12]
Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time? [6]
He found a lingering quality of pure Americanism in the region, and he said the very bells called to worship in a nasal tone. [8]
It is a lingering note, and comes in triplets, on the one unchanging key: hoo-o-o, hoo-o-o, hoo-o-o; then a silence of fifteen seconds, then the triplet again; and so on, all night. [5]
She would be lingering in the drawing-room in her best bib and tucker, or strolling in the garden as Dr. Courtenay passed, and I got but scant attention indeed. [9]
Some of these lines have been lingering in my memory for a great many years, but I looked at the original the other day and was so pleased with them that I got them by heart. [6]
It is partitioned lengthwise, and through one compartment walked such as bore light sentences in ancient times, and through the other marched sadly the wretches whom the Three had doomed to lingering misery and utter oblivion in the dungeons, or to sudden and mysterious death. [5]
Then, with a last lingering look at the brightness of the tree, she stood in the doorway and turned the electric switch. [9]
I suppose the jests of the vineyard watchmen are still lingering in your heads. [10]
So they took it, handling it as cautiously and devoutly as if it had been some holy thing come from some supernatural region; and gently felt of its texture, caressed its pleasant smooth surface with lingering touch, and scanned the mysterious characters with fascinated eyes. [5]
By this time it was three in the afternoon, and consequently it was not very long before night came--and not with a lingering twilight, but with a sudden shutting down like a cellar door, as is its habit in that country. [5]
Your servant Nebenchari is pining in a foreign land, deprived of home and property, and the wretched daughter of a king of Egypt dies a miserable and lingering death by her own hand. [10]
They watched her in silence as she turned and gave one last, lingering look at the features of the dead; stretched out her hand towards them, but did not touch them . [9]
Even to an impecunious noble there is a charm in this, although the society itself has some of the lingering conditions of its money origin. [4]
Something, too, of immortality in the sad, faint sweetness lingering so long in its lifeless petals. [6]
This had been his mood, but he was still irresolute, and it needed some outside suggestion to push him forward to overcome his lingering reluctance to go home. [4]
Hannah, lingering over her morning task of cleaning, did not seem to notice the act. [9]
Janet would stir, her mind still lingering on some dream, soon to fade into the inexpressible, in which she had been near to the fulfilment of a heart's desire. [9]
At the door he turned, and looked back at the two --a long, lingering look he gave. [11]
If she had had any lingering notion of exposing Alfred Temple, Tom's offensive fling had driven it entirely away. [5]
She praised Honora's gown, but left a lingering impression that she thought her overdressed, without definitely saying so. [9]
As they were going in, she turned for a lingering look at the sea. [9]
It is the first thing you look for when you rise in the morning, and the last your lingering gaze rests upon at night. [5]
He scanned our faces in a long, lingering look. [9]
Charles Brockden Brown died, the victim of a lingering consumption, in 1810, at the age of thirty-nine. [4]
She felt a curious kind of pleasure in lingering among these houses of the dead, and read the inscriptions on the tombs of the good people (a great number of good people were buried there), passing on from one to another with increasing interest. [12]
A long, lingering, colossal sigh followed, and his heart broke. [5]
They speak of Charon's lingering boat, which will convey you to your last home, to the one great resting-place for all wanderers--the kingdom of Hades. [10]
What a lingering catalogue of sighs and tears lies just before me, crowding my aching bosom with the fleeting dream of humanity, which must shortly terminate. [5]
It is also but artifice, yet so is the lingering perfume. [11]
We secured rooms at the hotel, or rather, we had three beds put into one room, so that we might be together, and then we went out to a restaurant, just after lamplighting, and ate a comfortable, satisfactory, lingering dinner. [5]
She did not appear to hear him, her eyes lingering on the room, until presently she asked:--"What's the name of this hotel? [9]
She had wounded and repelled him, and lingering in her was that exquisite touch of fear--a fear now not so much inspired by Ditmar as by the semi-acknowledged recognition of certain tendencies and capacities within herself. [9]
She knew what alone could capture her; and, as she sat and watched the singers on the stage now, the divine notes of that searching melody still lingering in her heart, there came a sudden wonder whether Eglington's heart could not be wakened. [11]
There was illness all through the Parsonage household--taking its accustomed forms of lingering influenza and low fever; she herself was outwardly the strongest of the family, and all domestic exertion fell for a time upon her shoulders. [14]

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