Careful Words

linger (n.)

linger (v.)

  They do not live but linger.

Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10.

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been,—

A sound which makes us linger; yet—farewell!

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 186.