A solitary figure was now outlined against the low cedars curled around Linger Lane.
During all this nonsense Jane cast many a furtive glance along Linger Lane, expecting the obnoxious Shirley to loom up large and lanky by the way, but as yet she had not darkened the shadowy path.
Speechless, the girls stood terrified, while the wail seemed to linger suspended somewhere!
Nor is it solely an inclination to linger near that dear boy, although I own the sight of him has been to me like the foretaste of a new existence.
As others of the party had begun to look back, and to linger for us to come up, there was no opportunity for further conference.
The viol passed into strange hands and wandered down the centuries, but its olden echoes linger still.
Why linger fondly around them, and meditate upon the power which reared them, and is departed?
Both women entreated him to linger yet another day.
It was a night never to be forgotten; one of those nights that will lingerlong in fondest remembrance by any who have enjoyed them.
His guardians were well pleased to see their young chief in a fair way to carry on the line; and that chief, in youth as in manhood, was not wont to linger over anything he undertook.
Without allies it was madness to advance; to linger idle in Dumfries was useless, even if he could hope to hold the town.
The robins would linger about for a week, or more, rather than leave a single bunch of those berries ungathered.
Sometimes, however, the mug would disappear rather suddenly in the morning, and an odor as of sulphureted hydrogen would linger about, till the kitchen windows were raised and the fresh west wind admitted.
And this makes it certain that the little side-scraps which the newspapers preserved, or such as lingerin some else forgotten magazine, will be regarded as among the treasures of collectors.
And Lowell was no longer a diplomatist; nor had he any special abuses to reform; he had no regular lectures to deliver; he had no wife with whom to talk and read and make dinner linger long, and breakfast and lunch.
But the echoes of its fame still linger around the mist-clad peaks of Umbria, and in the dilapidated palace-halls of the olden race.
Of the garden we can say nothing, horticulture being then a latent science; neither need we linger upon the court-yard provided for tennis or ball.
My dear woman, I will not linger here to point out to you the need of seeking from a higher than an earthly power the grace to suffer and be strong.
I shall not linger here to point out to such the need of seeking from a higher than earthly power the grace to suffer and be strong.
We linger at twilight with some companion, still glad, contented, and in tune with the nature which fills the orchards with blossom and sprays the hedges with dewy blooms.
I confess I have feared to enter or lingertoo long in the many-colored land of Druid twilights and tunes.
Even to-day, mysterious whispers of the De Danaans linger among the remote valleys and hillsides of our island, and truth is hidden in every legend of their deeds.
We shall do well, therefore, to linger for a moment before this new transition, to gain a clear view of the tendencies of the epoch then closed, the wider significance of that chapter of our nation's life.
He has left the record that he loved to linger in that open space, where might be seen a mingling of business and home life.
Well may the sea-vulture linger over this group, and contemplate their movements with expectant eye.
He did not know what she meant, or in what sense to take the remark; but his mind was too preoccupied to linger on it.
Many of the compromised chiefs, who had surrendered on his solemn pledge of amnesty, were either handed over to the executioner or sent to linger for life, loaded with fetters, in some of the prison ambas.
After the worshipful one had been borne off, the dejected trio did not linger long.
Neglected by sacred poets in the culminating period of purity in religion, it will linger among the superstitions of the rustics.
I left myself just above staring at the Fifth Avenue poster, and I can't but linger there while the vision it evokes insists on swarming.
I linger thus on Edgar by reason of its having somehow seemed to us that he described--was it at Doctor Anthon's?
We dared not linger at our robber camp, for at any time a big snowstorm might come that would cover the Wind River Divide, which we had to cross, with snow too deep for the horses to travel.
It is a long way from here, but whoever has taken the child would not be likely to linger in the neighborhood.
Roger turned to go back the moment he caught sight of them; but I felt inclined, I hardly knew why, to linger a little.
We shall meet, but we shall miss him; There will be one vacant chair; We shall linger to caress him When we breathe our evening prayer.
We shall meet, but we shall miss him; There will be one vacant chair; We shall linger to caress him While we breathe our evening prayer.
