. . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
Quotes about lingered (16 Quotes)
He never lingered. He'd just walk in a room and bang. That was the signal for all work to stop because he never did that for frivolous reasons.
It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died the dark night of slavery closed upon me and behold a man transformed into a brute
The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sunand a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leaftytongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale. It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure, except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn, had been transmuted to bright gold.
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.
I definitely never sensed it would be as big as it became. After the game, I thought maybe they'd talk about it for one or two days and then it would be over with. It kind of lingered.
We need 100 volunteers a week. We're six months into this and it's amazing the interest has lingered this long. We're got to keep it in front of people in order the sustain the volunteer growth.
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
In most of the world, the Cold War ended a decade ago, ... On the North Korean Peninsula, it lingered.
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
I think that both Kate and Samantha did well in their individual performances. It was great to see Kate make it to finals to score for the team. I think Samantha swam well, but she will tell you she didn't. She came down with a cold the week of districts, and it lingered throughout the trip to state and it had some effects.
There is no damage to the buildings. The rooms took an hour to clear and the smell still lingered in the building throughout the afternoon.