Linger Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Linger


Linger in the memory like the silvery embellishments of a great singer. —Anonymous	1
Lingers like an old faith. —Anonymous	2
Lingered … like innocent birds loath to be gone from the spot where their nest has been. —J. M. Barrie	3
The soft memory of her virtues … lingers like twilight hues. —William Cullen Bryant	4
Linger there, Like hopeless love without despair. —Rufus Dawes	5
Lingering about like a bailiff. —Charles Dickens	6
I am lingering yet, as sometimes in the blaze of day A milk-and-watery moon Stains with its dim and fading ray The lustrous blue of noon. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	7
Ling’ring now, Like the last of the leaves left on Autumn’s sere and faded bow. —Thomas Moore	8
Lingered in the air like dying rolls of abrupt thunder. —Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve	9
She lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man’s revenue. —William Shakespeare	10
Lingering like an unloved guest. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	11
Lingering a minute, like outcast spirits, who wait, and see, through the heaven’s gate, angels within it. —William Makepeace Thackeray	12