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Meanings of lingered like in English

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Usage of lingered like in English
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Now the pain was gone, but the pulsing lingered like an unsettled spirit.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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The two hours that succeeded lingered like days of misery.
The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale
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Bleakness lingered like a fungal stench in the clearing that held the village captive.
Sister of the dead
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His last word lingered like an echo in the air.
Sword of Honour
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But the smile thinly disguised the pain that lingered like a shadow in his eyes.
A True Friend: A Novel
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But fate lingered like all the rest of us.
Gala-Days
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Its Puritan characteristics have lingered like a sweet fragrance, and their influences are still felt.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4
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It lingered like perfume in an empty room, but it was closed down for now.
Blue Moon
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For long at Monte Carlo he lingered like a ghost, and at last died in Florence.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Ye...
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Rose and lingered like a lover loath to bid his love farewell;
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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He lingered like one entranced.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
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Sunlight poured through the window, tipping with gold the wings of Cupid, and lingered like a nimbus over the brows of the Madonna.
The King in Yellow
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