So still he tries, and still he fails; still searching long he lingers; And every time the tricksy things go slipping thro' his fingers.

I know you will not come where Adelaide's spirit yet lingers, if you cannot bring hands clean from all actual violence.

But wretched he who chooses the sixth, whose hair falls from his head, whose skin peels from his body, and who lingers long in excruciating agonies, a living death.

Those in whom that fancy lingers must have but a paltry standard of what righteousness is, a mean conception of moralthat is, spiritualperfection.

Possibly the word still lingers in the North Country: Sir Walter Scott uses it in the Antiquary, &c. "Wonning" sc.

Here and there on the Newfoundland mountains the snow lingers all summer long.

Most she lingers, where below Gliding wherries come and go; Stalwart footsteps shake the shores; Rolls the pulse of stalwart oars; Rings aloft the exultant cry For the bloodless victory.

Now and then there may be an eddy where the feeling lingers and reflects a bit of scenery, but for the most part it can only catch gleams of color that mingle with the prevailing tone and enrich without usurping on it.

The obstinacy of an hereditary absolutism, which the world has outgrown, still lingers in our schools of learning.

He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns!

Ice still lingers in the harbor, but the day is clear and sunshiny, and the snow melts rapidly.

Superstition lingers in dark veins longer than any other human failing.

Its gay companions, who so snugly lay Within the corners of their fragile home, All, all are lightly fled and surely gone; And their survivor lingers in his pride, The last of all the matches in the house; For Mr. Siftings says he has no more, And Siftings is an honourable man, And would not state a fact that was not so.

Such suffering, however, always leaves its marks behind; and when complicated with ill-health or bodily weakness, often lingers on after its main cause has been removed.

BRENTANO, FRANCES I. The melody lingers on.

The melody lingers on.

Still later, in November, the morning mist lingers over gorse and heath, and on the upper surfaces of the long dank grass blades, bowed by their own weight, are white beads of dew.

Slowly the hedger and ditcher goes back to his work, where in the shade under the bushes even now the dew lingers.

When Corneille observed, "In the well-born soul Valor ne'er lingers till due seasons roll," he spoke as truly for intelligence as for valor.

"The canoe is our ally, and, knowing that we want the warriors to pass us, it lingers a bit to call them on.

"I cannot say, and I will not say That he is deadhe is just away, With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land, And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there; We think of him faring on, as dear

And so there lingers a blind hope, a hopeless hope of something that shall make unreal that which our impotent imaginations refuse to accept as real.

The case is, to appearance, one past relief; but, with honest and incorruptible ministers of finance like Ramon Calatrava, hope still lingers in the long perspective.

It is interesting to note in passing that the old meaning of the word still lingers in the verb "to humor."

Hildegarde retires to convent of, 150; Roland lingers near, 151.