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Meanings of linger so in English

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Usage of linger so in English
1
Wished the dawn would come faster, the shadows not linger so long.
Nocturnal
2
Food too short for selves to linger so continued on way.
English passengers
3
Madman that I was to linger so long before I fled!
The Lost World
4
This daughter must have been quite creative to linger so.
Poison or Protect
5
All of a sudden, it felt dangerous to linger so close to the killer.
The Lying Game
6
How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?
The buried giant
7
One of those intimate memories of years past which linger so long in the mind.
The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Gra...
8
We were fools to linger so long before Paris.
The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred
9
Darling baby-girl, why did you linger so long?
The Harvest of Years
10
Did youth linger so long in them?
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886
11
The want of this was the reason that the deliverance of Israel did linger so long in former times.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
12
But the yellow or Turanian races, the Chinese and Japanese, the Turks and the Tartars, did not linger so helplessly behind.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
13
At the end of the last act she again made them linger so that they were the last to emerge into the passage.
The Cost
14
The secret lingered so close, almost like a third party in the bed.
Ruthless
15
What then was it that kept them lingering so close around?
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passeng...
16
Sure she can never have lingered so late beside the river!
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
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Linger so across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common