Quotes About Lingered

The daylight lingered past its time In rose-leaf radiance on the watching peaks, So it seemed Night listened in the glens And Noon upon the mountains.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring, that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.

The gods had been dead for fifteen years, after all, but their hate had lingered, and ruled in their stead.

The terror-the terror, the terror-lingered, and there was something else. It came with the dream, every time, and didn't recede with it but stayed like something a tide had washed in. Something awful-a rank leviathan corpse left to rot on the shore of her mind. It was remorse. But god, that was too bloodless a word for it,. This feeling the dream left her with, it was knives of panic and horror resting bright atop a red and meaty wound-fester of guilt.

Soon the smoke will drift over the river, and with it, the shepherds' first exposure to that smell: a smell like sick pork cooked slow, a smell that some would describe as having a taste, too, one that lingered in the back of the nose, at the base of the tongue, a taste not unlike licking a very old library book.

Hope, like the dim glow from a flashlight with a dying battery, lingered.