This idea still lingers and the institution remains,[22] although the system has received stunning blows from the teaching of Christian ethics, the preaching of a better gospel and the improvements in the law of the land.
Some of their charm ever lingers to us as we see them in the baskets of swarthy street venders in New York.
The climate is, on the whole, cold; the temperature is subject to sudden and violent changes, and among the mountains winter sometimes lingers for eight months.
But if chronic disease lingers in the joint of a child or young person, the probability of its being under the influence of tuberculous infection must be considered.
In hot weather particularly the wishful eye, when directed toward the lost Eden of boyhood, lights on and lingers near the Old Swimming-hole.
The other partylingers awhile looking up wistfully at the unresponsive windows of the sleeping-cars, behind which are the happy circus-actors.
And when the west is red With the sunset embers, The lover lingers and sings And the maid remembers.
One, perchance, One ultimate survivorlingers on, And smiles, and to his ancient heart recalls The long forgotten.
Love is done with and dead; if there lingers A faint and indefinite ghost, It is laid with this kiss on your fingers-- A jest at the most.
See yonder pawkie shepherd That lingers on the hill-- His ewes are in the fauld, And his lambs are lying still; Yet he downa gang to bed, For his heart is in a flame To meet his bonnie lassie When the kye comes hame.
One lingers over the sight as one lingers over a bed of flowers.
The air of the sick-room lingers everywhere about the place; one catches, as it were, the far-off hush of the Campo Santo.
But, like the rays of the setting sun, a twilight glory lingers yet.
Bart, however, seems to enjoy the process immensely, and Larry, by the way in which he lingers about the place and grins, evidently has a secret desire to experiment with it himself.
Ah, but how that garden lingers with me, and the single glimpse I caught of the deep dark eyes of its mistress as they looked out of a vine-clad window toward the sky!
In his way Mercablis was as celebrated as Felix Bulla the brigand or Agyllius Septentrio the actor of mimes, and the memory of his fame yet lingers in the recollections of the aged and in the talk of their children and grandchildren.
The beauty of a patriarchal repose stilllingers about its existence in spite of its degradation.
Jerusalem by Moonlight THE broad moon lingers on the summit of Mount Olivet, but its beam has long left the garden of Gethsemane and the tomb of Absalom, the waters of Kedron and the dark abyss of Jehoshaphat.
And though I may never see the boy's face, and rejoice to look upon it as I do upon thine, yet his pure memory lingersabout everything that he loved and touched, and his face can never be removed from my heart.
Why should I try to hide aught that his blessed memorylingers around?
From the bend in the road that shall hide her from our view forever she lingers a moment to throw back a sunny glance at September, as he comes whistling down the lane, with plume of golden-rod in his hat.
Is there a cold, resentful bank wherein the late snow lingers that shall not finally cast off its disdainful ice and flash into verdure in response to the patient shining of the sun?
Another is that the rooftree bends above an unbroken band, and that disease with its fell touch lingers the other side of the threshold of the little home.
But how about the flavor that lingers in your mouth?
The Lord God of Israel has known, and will know again, the affection that lingers round the homestead of many a family recollection and joy.
Thine are the soft, enchanting hours When twilight lingers on the plain, And whispers to the closing flowers That soon the sun will rise again.
One of those unique and original entertainments the memory of which lingers with one for long.
They made us a cranberry tart, on the memory of which my grateful palate lingers yet.
Sometimes the ghastly presence comes as a whiff of perfume,[109] where the spirit of the dead woman brings with it flowers in masses, with a heavenly perfume which lingers after the spirit in visible form has departed.
Another[116] is the record of a spirit of frightful evil that haunts a house built on the spot where an older house once stood, whose diabolism lingers on to curse the living.
It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within.
The one still lingers there, the other has not quitted my side!
The noblesse appear to be even haughtier than in Spain, perhaps on account of their greater poverty; and much more of the feudal spirit lingers among them, and gives character to society, than on the main-land.
The intellect is haunted by old modes of truth; the heart lingers around the ancient places of reverence; the conscience refers to some antique authority; the soul cannot pray except in the language of a pater-noster or a psalm.
Romance attended their footsteps, and romance stilllingers near them.
As onelingers there one can understand, indeed one can scarcely help understanding, the very peculiar charm which must often attach to the monkish life.
It was incredible, but no doubt lingers in my heart to-night.
There is no room for him if there lingers in the depth of his mind any taint of the temptation to serve his own ends, or to exalt himself or his order, by trading on the fears of irrational and credulous humanity.
I went on to reflect over the strange and obstinate tradition that lingers still with such vitality among the human race, that certain places are haunted by the spirits of the dead.
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