For many months after Pascal's death the coaches lingered on, but every week found them less patronised, and eventually they were discontinued.
In Edinburgh, as I have said, it lingeredon for rather a longer time.
On his face stilllingered the dark flush that had crept up over it at the black-eyed girl's taunt.
There was still so much to talk about that the two girls lingeredunder the trees while Mother Moira swung gently and listened and watched the dear young faces.
In spite of this rebuff Robin lingeredfor a moment, hopeful of a pleasanter word.
Harkness lingered while she tore open the envelope, concern struggling with curiosity on his face.
Her eyes lingered adoringly on the glowing, flushed face close to hers.
The thought lingered with her while she watched the girls come hand in hand out to the orchard from the drive where Robin had left her roadster.
He did not move, but upon his lips lingeredthat thin, shadowy smile that was like the stamp of a cruel jeer.
His features were careworn and haggard, yet in them lingered some indefinable suggestion of fine lines and deeply carven strength.
About that place there lingered a sense of the futility of man, a sense of the gorgeously foaming and bubbling eternity of the Creator.
It came finally when they had finished and still lingeredat the table.
As she lingered her glance fell on Mormon Joe's tar-paper shack that set in the middle of the lot on the diagonal corner from their house, and she told herself bitterly that even that drunken renegade, that social pariah, had enough to eat.
He lingered over the toilet articles, sniffing the soaps and smelling at the bottles of perfume, trying those whose names he especially fancied on the end of his nose by rubbing it with the glass stopper.
Immediately after breakfast there had been a certain look in his hostess's eye which had warned him that if he lingered he would be asked to assist with the churning.
Among those who admitted this was Mrs. Toomey, who lingered at the breakfast table the morning after Kate's return, thinking of many things while she absently clinked her spoon against the edge of her cup.
The three chieftains still lingered upon the knoll, looking down with hungry eyes and compressed lips at the dark steel-tipped patch.
But now there was a few minutes' delay, for the referee had lingered behind, and so he looked quietly about him.
Miss Jones and Jeff lingered in the same place for half an hour.
It was then she might have saved herself, but she lingered for an instant, then turned to run.
As Miss Jenny Ann retired to her cabin the thought came to her that they had lingered too long aboard their houseboat.
One illustration used by him has lingered with me through all these years.
Even after the Mystery Play was itself abandoned, a remnant of it lingered on until the middle of the nineteenth century in the annual procession of La Tarasque, celebrated on July 29th, not only at Tarascon, but also at Beaucaire.
But we have lingered long enough out here, and unless you have something more to say to me, we will return to the ballroom.
But I felt very anxious, though I scarcely knew why, and I lingered at the door and glanced back at him.
He lingered for a full month, snarling and fretting about the Bank, talking of the future, hearing the Bible read, lecturing Reggie on sin, and wondering when he would be able to move abroad.
But it lingered for seventeen, as a rule, while the Band played.
The wrath of Athene, who crushed the faint hopes which lingered in my heart, left me mortal still, and I am weary with the woe of the ages that are past.
She lingerednot to listen to his words, but with light foot she sped over hill and dale and along the bank of the river where it leaps down the mountain cliffs and winds along the narrow valleys.
Then Eumaius told him how his mother had pined away and died after Odysseus went to Ilion, and how Laertes lingered on in a wretched and squalid old age.
In the time of Augustus, the city is said to have been entirely deserted, except by a few Jews who still lingered amongst the ruins.
I could see a tear in her eye as she blessed them; and when she laid her hand on the head of the eldest of her grand-daughters, it lingered there as if to call down upon her a special benison.
She smiled, a sweet smile that crept up from her lips into her eyes, and lingered there.
He merely lingered to ask Mrs. Penn a few rapid questions about the boy's dress and general appearance, and then the door closed behind him, and he was gone.
II NEXT morning Done lingered below till the day was well advanced, but the darkness and the heavy atmosphere 'tween decks drove him into the open.
XXI IT was February, and the Honourable Walter Ryder lingered at the homestead.
He returned to the portrait, lingered over it a moment or two, putting in here a stroke, there a touch or a smear.
XVII For some time Wyndham stood with his head still bowed as Lady Betty's voice lingered in his ear.
And her mind lingered gently on the figure of this other woman whom she had never seen, but to whom her heart went out in an impulsive flood of love and pity.
He lingered before his picture, then brusquely tore himself away from it, and sat down and wrote instructions to the frame-maker, who was to come and fetch it away on the morrow, and despatch it to Paris immediately.
They mounted the house-steps in silence, she unusually engrossed in thought, and with an unmistakable air of sadness, as if her mind still lingered on this woman's figure that had flashed on them out of the darkness.
Somehow the sense of the distance, as he lingered on it, was not unacceptable.
She smiled at him quite frankly now, and her soft fingers lingered a friendly moment in his.
A touch of worldly bitterness indeed lingered with him; there was the remembrance of the lean years behind him.
For more than a quarter of a century I have been a friendly visitor to his colonies, in which I have lingeredlong and lovingly.
Suddenly from those heights of the primitive and the eternal upon which a child starts and where she still lingered she saw her future before her, shining with new lights, and a wonderful conviction of bliss to come was over her.
The two girls walked on, while the men lingered behind to talk.
The man with whom he had been walking when Ellen appeared lingered for him to rejoin him.
For three days Philip Benson lingered near his beautiful enslaver; on the fourth, he carried a sad, yet trustful heart upon his Southern journey.
He was a suspicious man to a certain extent as well as a careful one, and no one lingered at his window without becoming an object of interest from behind the tobacco-jars and penny numbers.
Before leaving the place I lingered long near the door, for I was sure I shouldn't soon again enjoy such a feast of scenic composition.
He lingered long, relishing the details of schemes that he was too idle to pursue.
They met, they lingered together for the least fraction of time, and that was enough.
By the time he came to a corner of the valley and could see the kirk, he had so lingered by the way that the first psalm was finishing.
The tune that he whistled was strange to me, and lingered in my ears, as having something very new and striking, and fantastic in it.
Through the vapour of the earth, and white breath of the water, and beneath the pale round moon (bowing as the drift went by), all this rush and pause of fear passed or lingered on my path.
Time is up," cried head-monitor, ere ever I got my breath again; and when I fain would have lingered awhile on the knee of the boy that held me.
Sophonisba's mother lingered a long time over the cots, and delighted her mother-eye with the models of babies that were lying in them.
There came a day when we promised ourselves an actual occurrence in our Crusoe life.
Fefe was in his element, sitting with his best side to the public, and flaunting his ear-ring mightily.
The child who possessed as part of her inheritance a fine, sensitive instinct, looking at her mother, observed that her long silken eyelashes were wet with tears, and that traces of recent mental agony lingered on her face.
They lifted her on to her bed; they folded the poor, tired hands of the weary woman, whose life had lingered on through those lonely, loveless years.
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