lingering

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They were like her voice to him--lingering, soft, mysteriously of the long-ago.

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  1. Drawing out in time; remaining long; protracted; dilatory in action: as, a lingering illness; lingering poisons. My griefs not only pain me As a lingering disease, But, finding no redress, ferment and rage. Milton, S. A., l. 618.

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