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While ling'ring Stanhope sighs to share his throne; —
The Age Reviewed 2010
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Though mingled peals, by ling'ring breezes driv'n,
The Age Reviewed 2010
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A poison'd drop of bitterness to spoil the ling'ring kiss:
Ideala Sarah Grand
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Her music, too, of voice and string seems ling'ring on the ear,
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Loath'd by the gods, have dragg'd a ling'ring life;
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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What joy for thee to ling'ring gaze within those cloudless eyes,
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While the hues of the evening seem ling'ring to shew me
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Nor feel the breeze that round thee ling'ring strays
O sleep, my Babe 1919
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Counts all thy wounds, and feels thy ling'ring pangs --
Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 Edward Ziegler Davis 1901
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Touching the ling'ring chords of childlike feeling,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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