lingerer

Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer.

Beard

May I point out that you could be pulled over for flashing your highbeams at the left lane lingerer.

Move over Jersey drivers, Manahan takes on the left-lane lingerers

On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind.

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The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

Then just as the gangway was about to be withdrawn, it suddenly came over her that a whole ocean was soon to roll between her and those who loved her best, and she clung to Laurie, the last lingerer, saying with a sob ...

Little Women

For the listener; for the lingerer with a love glides

The Wreck of the Deutschland

TARRY thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight’s glory:

A Call of the Sidhe

Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory

Imaginations and Reveries

By January the complex social mechanism of the metropolis was whirling smoothly again; the last ultra-fashionable December lingerer had returned from the country; those of the same caste outward bound for a

The Fighting Chance

From what I had once called myself, "The Amateur Parisian," I grew (or declined) into a water-side prowler, a lingerer on wharves, a frequenter of shy neighbourhoods, a scraper of acquaintance with eccentric characters.

The Wrecker