Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Linger
Linger in the memory like the silvery embellishments of a great singer.
—Anonymous
Lingers like an old faith.
—Anonymous
Lingered … like innocent birds loath to be gone from the spot where their nest has been.
—J. M. Barrie
The soft memory of her virtues … lingers like twilight hues.
—William Cullen Bryant
Linger there,
Like hopeless love without despair.
—Rufus Dawes
Lingering about like a bailiff.
—Charles Dickens
I am lingering yet, as sometimes in the blaze of day
A milk-and-watery moon
Stains with its dim and fading ray
The lustrous blue of noon.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ling’ring now,
Like the last of the leaves left on Autumn’s sere and faded bow.
—Thomas Moore
Lingered in the air like dying rolls of abrupt thunder.
—Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
She lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame, or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man’s revenue.
—William Shakespeare
Lingering like an unloved guest.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lingering a minute, like outcast spirits, who wait, and see, through the heaven’s gate, angels within it.
—William Makepeace Thackeray