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  • Fans of bibliographies will no doubt linger over page 5 of the guidebook which lists the 17 bibliographies published by the library itself.
  • It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
  • The kings of the heartogram didn't fail to impress, with a diverse crowd gathered, including everyone from young punks to soccer moms and even a haggard old bat dancing around in lingerie.
  • Her wrists were bound together with rope, and so were her ankles, her neck open to the air and the world, and her entire body was in a guillotine, the blade lingering high above.
  • The lingering theory is credible because it is hard to imagine that the restaurant business in most cities and towns is anything but competitive. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
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  • Saxby Bridge has enthusiastically marketed all sorts of tax effective schemes involving things like tea trees, macadamias, wine and even online lingerie.
  • As well as knitwear, accessories, bags and jewellery in the womenswear department, the store also offers lingerie and sleepwear to suit all mums.
  • The delicate cycle, which uses a slower and gentler spin intensity, is for laundering lingerie, stockings and other garments that are normally handwashed.
  • He stared at her, his grey eyes lingering on her lips.
  • Her walls are papered with postcards and record covers, while lingerie, feather boas and a plastic blow-up doll hang from the ceiling.
  • These figures kill off any lingering hopes of an early economic recovery.
  • There are about 7,000 such maladies, most of them serious, that have few or no drugs to treat them, from adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare head and neck cancer, to Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, which is associated with a tumor that causes the production of high levels of stomach acid. Push to Cure Rare Diseases
  • Ergot also had a history of medical use—as a labor-inducing drug that, according to one nineteenth-century physician, “expedites lingering parturition and saves to the accoucheur a considerable portion of time.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
  • College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.
  • The world's lingering,the end is still no match for the forget the bitter oligonucleotide soup.
  • She wiped off any lingering raindrops on her face, toweling her hair and dress lightly, and placing her handbag next to her coat on the floor.
  • Their prejudiced ideological view of each other lingered on.
  • Parkhurst tells Bullinger, among other novelties, that Riccio was a necromancer, who happened to be dirked; by whom he does not say. John Knox and the Reformation
  • Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations. The Gilded Age, Part 1.
  • Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest. The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
  • Debenhams, a British department store that has consistently combatted various techniques employed by the media, banned airbrushing in its 2010 swim and lingerie campaigns. Marissa Lepor: Natural Beauty: A Lost Art?
  • That misprinted movie name is in hundreds of thousands of copies of The Great Unraveling; it will linger forever in the minds of many people who, like us journalists, don't know that there's an error to look for.
  • Playing "catwoman" - in leopard print lingerie with a long tail and cat ears while sitting in a cage. IOL Technology
  • The specter of death lingers over the entire film, both figuratively with Tommy Lee Jones as a corporate "axeman" sent to close down the show after one last performance and literally, in the form of Virginia Madsen's angel in a white trenchcoat, a noirish avatar of death who Altman credits as the "Dangerous Woman" even though she's given an actual name in the film. Archive 2008-11-01
  • Kelly is portrayed as a slow witted young man, with a strong sense of injustice, who feels uncomfortable in the role of gunslinger.
  • Any new medical condition is at first scoffed at as "malingering," "hypochondria" or "hysteria," and only slowly becomes established. Electrosensitives reach out to OEN
  • All the other guests had gone home, but Cage lingered around as if she wanted to talk to me.
  • He does credit himself with a good sniffer though and claims that his thick moustache is both a blessing – pleasant smells linger longer – and a curse – the bad ones do too. Something Stinks « So Many Books
  • A fitful breeze stirred the pale foliage over her head, now and then showering her with pink petals from the lingering blossoms; from beneath her rose the damp sweet fragrance of soft earth and green grass, nearby a meadow-lark sang plaintively; somewhere a robin called arrogantly to his mate in the nest; from the valley, stretching below the sloping orchard, a violet mist lifted. Red-Robin
  • Wages are pinned to the floor, housing costs are ludicrous and student debts linger for decades. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a precaution against the disease lingering, quick lime was poured into the graves.
  • Don't linger over the options, just plump for one straight away. Times, Sunday Times
  • Behind the dish's overwhelming dose of lime juice, the broth was tinny and under-salted and left an unpleasant, lingering taste that I associate with the pre-prepared garlic paste you buy in jars.
  • What drew slightly more attention was his penchant for staying after class, gently proselytizing about Jesus to some of the younger lingerers.
  • This summer past, thanks to the lingering soft economy, many vacation rental owners were besieged by vacation and daycation bargain hunters. Realty Times Real Estate News Channel
  • They linger, gazing curiously at the portraits and asking questions.
  • Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering.
  • Fully plump, after indulging in a complete Jamaican breakfast on the plane: ackee, saltfish, coco-bread and plantain chips something I would definitely not recommend before doing on-camera work at a lingerie show, I landed in Kingston ready to "dutty wiiine" it up--or at least relax and make a quick stop at the delectable Manley Airport veggie juice bar for a healthy detox. Chie Davis: Kingston Lingerie and Swimwear Fashion Show
  • Alroy still lingered, and for some hours the warriors of his staff might have been observed lounging about the citadel, or practising their skill in throwing the jerreed as they exercised their impatient chargers before the gates. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
  • J.D. Salinger had to wall himself away from the world and refuse to play the literary lion that the sales figures of his books easily enabled him to become.
  • If, on the other hand, your store is a homey place where people tend to linger and chat, you'll want to hire someone who fits into this atmosphere.
  • But the damage lingered from the recession that started in December 2007. Looking for a job? Watch some of these videos for advice
  • And at winter dusk, sky and snow are bathed in delicate colours which linger for hours.
  • Prior catastrophic losses both in Mysore and in America had a lingering effect on future actions in India not only because the British could not afford further defeat, but also because the primary British actant in the Mysore Wars and the Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
  • As his Congressional colleagues worked tirelessly in Washington, he malingered in New York. Deanie Mills: The Difference Between A Functional Leader And A Fictional One
  • He lingered over the word `full" and exposed gold-filled teeth as he smiled. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • Now the moa is officially extinct, being gone since the 12th century, with some lingering possibly into the 1500's. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Online shopping for lingerie is becoming more and more popular and for a good reason.
  • Shopkeepers, professional men, painters, plumbers and mechanics must have been counting down the last lingering seconds of the forenoon. MOONDROP TO MURDER
  • He lingered on for several months after the heart attack.
  • A: Hey , pretty young thing ! How about some kinky lingerie?
  • Bottom or near-bottom feeding of the L klingeri animal as a scavenger or as a microphagous predator is envisaged, in a low-energy environmental setting.
  • His challenge to Doerflinger was to defend, in a nonarbitrary way and without reference to religious principles, the notion that society should recognize moral value and legal rights at any particular point along that line. The Democrats and the Abortion Wars
  • Sunday was the day I had fun and laughed without any sort of trouble or lingering worry.
  • First, it removes at one swoop any lingering questions over the company 's financial strength. Times, Sunday Times
  • The scent still seems to linger.
  • There's no need to linger over this stage of the interview.
  • The word dyed Julia's cheeks crimson, and for the long hour that they lingered over their tea she seemed to Jim more charming than he had ever found her before. The Story of Julia Page
  • The faint smell of her perfume lingered in the room.
  • Almost like the bad old days. Inside the prison, guards lingered everywhere. DEAD LINES
  • I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
  • Social welfare is also affected by the unresolved problem of unemployment due to the lingering economic crisis, which has yet to be fully worked out.
  • A wish for a truly merry Christmas and may the joy of Christmas linger in your heart all the year!
  • Suits, skirts and silky lingerie both conceal and highlight the dark side of those who wear them.
  • The stench appeared the instant they walked in through the door and lingered for a good while after they had departed.
  • Perhaps it would be best in such shows to ditch relationships entirely, making the heroine into a female James Bond who uses and discards men or a female gunslinger type who lives celibately, but each of those has problems of its own. Good News, Bad News
  • There are several sequences in the film that abandon voice-overs and linger on the natural beauty of the landscape.
  • It's jarring and offensive and leaves one with nothing but repulsive images that linger on afterwards.
  • But the phrase lingered through her whole life, and eventually became part of it. Evelyn Innes
  • The "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" of models strutting the lingerie firm's latest creations last year drew a 10 percent share of the televiewing audience. The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS
  • The faint smell of her perfume lingered in the room.
  • My malady, which the doctors call a bilious fever, lingers, or rather it returns with each sudden change of weather, though I am thankful to say that the relapses have hitherto been much milder than the first attack; but they keep me weak and reduced, especially as I am obliged to observe a very low spare diet. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
  • Since all of the above are inventions of the high-growth period that lingered into the 1990s, I think that what we are seeing now is a combination of commercialized polish (once reserved for the massification of Taisho middle class culture and is now falling along with depato) and fast 風土 with prewar styles of community organization (rural village youth organization or collections of young people around an urban nagaya - always pretty randy). Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Yanmama Boom
  • The dcor in my apartment lingers somewhere between yard sale and college dorm. Fat Chance
  • This distinction should not simply be pushed aside without an attempt to diagnose and exorcize some of the lingering cultural stereotypes within it.
  • Not for him the lingering death of an elder statesman, waiting in desperation for the telephone to ring, for someone to remember. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
  • His hands lingered for a moment, his fingers hinting at a strength that made her throat tighten.
  • G20 leaders face lingering economic trouble as conference is set to open economy still wobbly from the worst recession in seven decades, restraining greedy bankers and plotting a future course for sustainable growth - the leaders of the world's major derivatives in the second quarter, as the level of risk eased in the global Wall Street, sex-and-shopping chick lit is so over. WN.com - Articles related to India inks nuclear pact with Argentina
  • His brown eyes lingered on her body, as she pushed herself against him.
  • She lingered for a moment, uncertain what to do, then turned on her heel and left abruptly.
  • Earlier this year a poll found that 40% of small businesses thought employees were malingering when they took sick leave.
  • We seem to be hard-wired into receiving streaming images from TV, film, print and our social media, fiercely flashing before us at strobe-light speed, yet never quite lingering long enough for us to take a really deep look into the energetics behind the images. Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity
  • NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over ... Joyce Purnick: Bloomberg's No-Shows
  • We must linger for a moment more, for just at the top of the bank I see the little bird's foot (Ornithopus perpussillus).
  • Between bearing children and enduring lingering sicknesses, Susanna was unable to do much to supplement his income.
  • Alison Lambert and Jessica Klikach were out in Hawaiian regalia, while Kendra Von Bremen and Catherine Allan of Revelstoke dressed up Zorro and Gunslinger respectively. Kootenay Rockies - News
  • I lingered on the sidewalk outside the old house, wondering who lived there now.
  • Nice touches include steam vents that cast lingering clouds over the courses and new audio cues to warn of danger.
  • But the taste of that sauce lingered and I finished my water trying to get the taste out of my mouth.
  • The Beast had been busy arguing that it needed a good six months more to mount a proper, lingering defence.
  • The lingerie retailer unveiled the ‘Pink’ line of cotton loungewear and sleepwear targeting 18-to 22-year-olds on Thursday.
  • Running her tiny fingers on the keyboard, Ksemya plays such melodious music that the after-effect lingers on for a while.
  • You'll be welcome to linger as long as you like over brunch, lunch or dinner and time in between.
  • Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, said his group is working diligently on what he described as a lingering threat to the international community. Latest News - UPI.com
  • At the top the representation of women lingers at around a stubborn 15%. Times, Sunday Times
  • For some, there was a lingering feeling of betrayal. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the absence of the traditional enemy didn't spoil the fun for assortment of enthusiasts including gunslingers, gamblers, and their womenfolk.
  • The King was inconveniently lingering so they hurried him along with an injection into the jugular vein of a mixture of morphine and cocaine. Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: David Seidler Protects and Defends The King's Speech
  • A baying mob of 200 fans mercilessly called for Van de Velde to quit immediately after this third defeat in a row which ended the Wolves' lingering top five hopes.
  • Here the key is provocative questions or ideas that linger in their minds. Christianity Today
  • One other lingering question from last night's documentary is how did he become so thin?
  • Many bad habits will linger on and many good ones may disappear but at least the pattern will change a bit.
  • The ubiquitous face as well as the proscenium are the lingering elements that integrate with still life, largely reinventing this concept with different perception.
  • He could be glimpsed in the dedications of at least 40 books, from Berton Roueche's true stories of medical detection to Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," where he was apostrophized as "lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific" - that is, a writer's editor. A Lover Of The Long Shot
  • When it was time to file out the side-door into the courtway, she would linger at prayers, then slip out another door, and unseen glide up Chartres Street to Canal, and once there, mingle in the throng that filled the wide thoroughfare. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
  • Michael Burkard's latest book - full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets - is similarly lingering and resonant.
  • She entered the lingerie shop, idly browsing and refusing assistance from a saleswoman, taking a roundabout route towards the target.
  • Like two gunslingers, the pair must now size each other up, staring intently through narrowed eyes, trigger fingers twitching, working out who will make the first move.
  • She calls her malingering dad who says Maria is in India having a hip replacement. Foreign Body-Robin Cook « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • Add to that the lingering effects of injuries, and the defending Pacific champion looked sluggish and uninterested.
  • That lingering uncertainty cast a pall over stock and bond markets.
  • This swelling border, added last, embraces all but the lower left corner of the centralized image, canceling out the lingering sense of rational space of "Sketch 1" and pushing the vestiges of the troika, St. George and a mountainous landscape firmly toward abstractness. Complementary Abstractionists
  • Six months later, no one has reeled the big boy in, but the gunslinger remains cautiously optimistic.
  • The Church and democracy had fought a war for temporal power, the Church had lost, and the antagonism lingered.
  • It made R. feel even more awful that he knew people suspected him of being a malingerer - the very last person you'd have had the right to accuse of being work-shy. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
  • I thus associate the compact world of the admirable hill-top, the world of a predominant golden-brown, with a general invocation of sensibility and fancy, and think of myself as going forth into the lingering light of summer evenings all attuned to intensity of the idea of compositional beauty, or in other words, freely speaking, to the question of colour, to intensity of picture. Italian Hours
  • Nor did I have the urge to linger on the Neva embankment with Charsky.
  • I have many memories of Calum, but the one that lingers most hauntingly in my mind is of him sitting among my family, his dark eyes, unfathomable as they often were, fixed on somewhere high on the wall, while his fingers coaxed that plaintive music from our little squeeze-box. Every living thing
  • Banished from the official organizational history, the memory of these unpleasant side effects lingers in the form of unhealthy core beliefs.
  • The anger was no longer present, but the chilly persona still lingered.
  • At the risk of seeming to fantasticate I confess that the Pope's having built the viaduct -- in this very recent antiquity -- made me linger there in a pensive posture and marvel at the march of history and at Pius the Italian Hours
  • Hendry's Brighton triumph dispelled any lingering doubts that he could perform without the piece of wood with which he won seven world titles.
  • Yet still we lingered, savoring the last moments of the magical afternoon.
  • (There is one odd scene, when Salinger is pricked on the back of his neck - the same wound that killed his partner - that lacks any kind of discernable payoff). AndPOP.com
  • Every heightening of emotion produced for her a new effusion of beauty in visible things, and with it the sense that such moments should be lingered over and absorbed like some unrenewable miracle. The Reef; a novel
  • Winner's ‘ordinary’ American was going to be someone whom the audience already knew as a gunslinger and hit man.
  • The lingering tingling sensations caused by the whip glowed all over her body.
  • For the wealthy lady, the proper layer of lingerie was important and the corsetier and couturier one purchased one’s lingerie from was a status symbol, its purchase acknowledging that the lady had a special someone for whom she flaunted her undergarments. Edwardians Unbuttoned | Edwardian Promenade
  • History teaches that the lack of a railroad stop condemned many towns to a lingering death a hundred years ago.
  • But for some reason my pissed-off-ness is still lingering? The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother
  • She lingered, but lingered dyingly, for three years; and then, for the first time since William's death, she smiled: that smile remained on the lips of the corpse. Lucretia — Volume 04
  • A major section of the crane snapped off at a Dallinger Ltd construction site at the old Gasworks site on the Sunday morning.
  • Born in 1852 in Missouri, Calamity was an excellent horsewoman and gunslinger, and got by as an express rider, cook, dance-hall girl and prostitute.
  • So did all the lovely young women who advertised for the sexy lingerie.
  • The other spectre that haunts liberal economics – other than the lingering unhappiness that its happy-clappy consumerism generates – is the broaching of planetary boundaries for survival. The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane
  • One I'd shipped with from New Amsterdam t'the Hesperides, heap o 'times; dropped back in at his home port, got kind of daffy overa doll and just lingered. The Gates of Noon
  • And if she lingered too long with these and the dogs, Sir Paul, the parrot, was screaming loudly, threatening to "tell the missus," while the whole cageful of little birds were twittering and scolding that they had not been attended to first of all. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.
  • This is the classic method using oatmeal rather that porridge oats and is my favourite because of its rough texture and lingering flavour.
  • She threw in the Dacron cassock and surplice, too, the scent lingering. TOUCH
  • He reports that the cost of his artificial sharkskin is similar to that of commonly used antifouling paints, though a method of applying the skin to ship hulls remains a lingering technical hurdle.
  • One of the recurrent characters in his works is, in fact, a murderous gunslinger at the ready, pistol pointed toward an unseen target outside the frame.
  • A tall, fast-talking southerner whose accent still lingers despite her years in the north, Porter does not suffer fools gladly.
  • Ripe, floral peachy aromas with distant soft buttery scents offers up lemon tinged almond flavours that roll on to a lingering mineral edge on the finish.
  • The charm of the detail tempted one to linger at every turn, and all the more so because I knew that I should see nothing more of the grace and bounteousness of Nature till my projected descent into Kulu in the late autumn. Among the Tibetans
  • What motivated my desire to write about the homeless from the position of that doorway was a woman named Gerri Willinger.
  • The cheer that resonates around arenas as races are won and world records are broken is always accompanied by the lingering doubt that the feats are enhanced by drugs.
  • Here may be a way to put all those lingering doubts to rest and see for yourself the efficacy of alternative therapies.
  • Alternatively, you might linger at the lodge, where the after-dinner floorshow is unique: on the porch a procession of quolls, possums and Tasmanian Devils arrive, politely waiting for you to hand-feed them.
  • The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me.
  • Questions linger about how the government will deal with contractors who may have exceeded their contractual authority - and the bounds of the law
  • The thick heavy grey smoke lingered among the branches and prevented the flowers and buds from being burned by frost.
  • Chicago Spire could be a symbol of what has happened in real estate construction in general over the past year or so -- an ambitious project full of promise and hope, left lingering in a state of undoneness due to the economic shift. Luxist
  • Publisher and editor had suffered 'the loss of too many ha'pence ... a quick end is better than a lingering exhaustion'. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Any bird unlucky enough to get trapped would have suffered a lingering death. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are rather sinister creatures that like to stalk their prey as it dies a slow, lingering death from septicaemia caused by their vicious bite. The Sun
  • Now he's breaking into the U.S. With more than 50 million YouTube plays, his song "Somebody That I Used to Know" lingers on an expired romance and features ear-grabbing instrumental hooks. The Short List
  • Distaste about the alleged architect of Lockerbie's readmission into the world leaders' club lingered in many circles, not least among the US victims' families and their supporters.
  • Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan's move to rejigger his management team should kill any lingering thoughts that Merrill Lynch could be reborn. Mother Merrill Staying Put
  • Any lingering aura of weapons testing seemed to have vanished from the word bikini by the 1960s, when what was left of Bikini Atoll itself was largely forgotten. The English Is Coming!
  • May I point out that you could be pulled over for flashing your highbeams at the left lane lingerer. Move over Jersey drivers, Manahan takes on the left-lane lingerers
  • In this case, the neighbourhood is Queens, the young man is newcomer Rob Brown, and the mentor character is Sean Connery, who plays the titular Forrester, a reclusive, J.D. Salingeresque author.
  • That was the question which seemed to linger despite Livingston's categoric assertion that David Hay's appointment as head coach, confirmed before the game, would not entail team selection duties.
  • Lingerie and nightwear can be a great holiday gift idea for that someone special.
  • Yet the feeling that sporting justice has not been delivered continues to linger. Times, Sunday Times
  • The businessman only looked up when he felt a presence lingering in the doorway.
  • The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me.
  • A beautiful one, with so many wild flowers that a sweet scent of lavender lingered on the soft breeze that was brushing his face.
  • Van Meene's camera tends to linger on eccentric but captivating details.
  • Bollinger was ‘working’ in these pictures, but not in the manner of the other artists Fiore depicted.
  • The question I have lingering is ... why did * I* stay? Wesson Oil
  • Mercifully, she could still dream of the expansive Havana avenues, the grand casinos before the revolution, the kempt plazas where she would linger with her lover.
  • He's not a backslapper, and some of his problems in Aspen may come from a lingering homophobia aimed in his general direction. Michael Conniff: Con Games: The Good Guy Finally Wins At Aspen Music Fest
  • Evans MI, Klinger KW, Isada NB, Shook D, Holzgreve W, McGuire N, Johnson MP: Rapid prenatal diagnosis by fluorescent in situ hybridization of chorionic villi: an adjunct to long term culture and karyotype. Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Earlier, they'd been serving soup and stovies, and the aroma lingered. Fleshmarket Close
  • At the top the representation of women lingers at around a stubborn 15%. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's sexy and dark, with a lingering floral overtone and a subtle animality that will undoubtedly prompt people to ask "Mmm, what are you wearing? All I Want for Christmas...
  • He says no one can prove there have been massacres, and the journalists linger on the illuminative qualities of the horizon - of the frame - the beauty of the light.
  • Bollinger and the rest of the Columbia administration had to be shamed into setting up the committee in the first place.
  • Meanwhile, Irving has been relegated to henpecked husband status, and exists only to put a paycheck in the bank so Cathy can buy more shoes, more dresses, more lingerie she wears while straddling her lover.
  • (In any film about solidarity, lingerie is the shorthand for emergency sluthood.) "You have your fancy gardens and your nice houses," Crystal says, and proceeds to chip away at Mary's fantasy of marital bliss. The New Yorker
  • Carson's mind lingered in the realm of hazy confusion before it hit him.
  • For many years there's been a belief that this is a psychological condition, that it doesn't really exist, that the patients are imagining symptoms or malingering.
  • The evenings were spent lingering over fine wines and cognacs while gymnastic students modelled the latest in Brazilian swimwear.
  • Some few who had no music in their souls, or no money in their pockets, dawdled about; and the old spectacle of the visitor – wife and the depressed unseasoned prisoner still lingered in corners, as broken cobwebs and such unsightly discomforts draggle in corners of other places. Little Dorrit
  • But four per cent had chronic problems and complications that lingered for years. The Sun
  • As his gaze lingered in self-appraisal and approval, something in the night outside moved. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • On 'baith balinger and barge' the marginal note is 'ship', explaining two vessels with one gloss. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Nevertheless, varied combinations of ancient philosophical essentialism and nineteenth-century scientific racialism linger to this day in American folk concepts of race.
  • This unsettled and windy spell looks set to linger through much of this week. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are rather sinister creatures that like to stalk their prey as it dies a slow, lingering death from septicaemia caused by their vicious bite. The Sun
  • She will be proud to show her figure as she will pose in sexy lingerie of her choice.
  • Punter Josh Bidwell's lingering hip pain prompted Washington to assign him to the season-ending injured-reserve list and sign former Redskins punter Hunter Smith, Coach Mike Shanahan said after practice Thursday at Redskins Park. Josh Bidwell's hip pain sends him to the injured list
  • We had a similar problem four years ago and the big apples just lingered on the shelves. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's true, to use a golf analogy, it's like they shanked the ball with Ago, called a mulligan, and hit a 300-yard drive before anyone could linger on the initial embarrassment. Rachel Thebault: The "Do-Over!": Reinventing Your Failing Business
  • Fowler and Saunders on Spantik, and even a passing nod to Moffat and Edlinger.
  • I mean a well chosen incision -- the cesura, and a lingering -- Chopin : the Man and His Music
  • And Russia has only itself to blame if its neighbours feel a lingering unease about its policies and intentions. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Wherefore the she-wolf went red and white by turns, and fumed, and fretted her bedizenments with unrestful hands, and when she should let us go our ways, she lingered and looked back oft, and was loth to depart ere she had gotten what she lacked, and that, forsooth, was the said flasket. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • In its listing on Ebay on Tuesday, the Nevada-based company selling the note calls autographed Salinger items "exceedingly rare. Reuters: Press Release

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