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This is the classic method using oatmeal rather that porridge oats and is my favourite because of its rough texture and lingering flavour.
And yet, turning in my trap, I saw her lingering before the door, very still, and as if meditating a flight up the miry road.
It's a bit of an art, because you have to ensure a silent evacuation and a quick disassociation from any lingering odours.
She leaned into him and Jack met her eager lips with a long, lingering kiss.
Still, the handmade quality of the welded assemblies may be the most lingering image.
The last of Mr Darcy's lingering doubts faded as he saw her cheeks flush in the pink tinge of a blush.
Moreover, Lord Goff specifically rejected the compassionate avoidance of lingering as a defence against mercy killing.
She pulled away from him, her hand lingering on the snow-white fabric of the dress mess jacket.
To prepare radishes for serving, wash them to remove any lingering dirt, and pinch or slice off the tops and any hairy roots.
The ham-handed coup triggered a leadership crisis and widespread protests, as well as lingering bitterness and distrust.
That poor wooden couple lingering around the doorways of the weather house are spinning around like maniacs.
This is all illustrated with long, lingering shots of gorgeous northern landscapes, reindeer stampeding across vast expanses of ice and tundra.
She wiped off any lingering raindrops on her face, toweling her hair and dress lightly, and placing her handbag next to her coat on the floor.
He let his eyes range freely up and down her body, lingering particularly on her legs.
This one had a good texture but there was a lingering chemical aftertaste to this mild cheese.
There's a lingering smell of lavender and nice homely touches such as flowers, china tea cups, a bowl of chocolates and whisky miniatures.
The girl changed her dress into a simple shift and checked the hall way for any lingering servants.
When he looked up, he saw a shimmering star lingering in the morning sky, just above the treetops.
We should welcome an opportunity to mitigate the misery of a lingering death of a person who longs to die.
Her heart ached as the coldness gripped her and tore the dress to pieces, only shreds of innocent cloth lingering between her forsaken fingers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The discomforted Misses Salter finding lingering and last words useless, at length took their departure.
The General withdrew his lingering gaze from the clothespin, and turned his blue eyes wonderingly up to her.
The only great dread is the protraction of life into imbecility or the visitation of lingering pain.
She sighed, and the sibilance of it echoed with a strange lingering note between those high gray walls.
Mr. pine finch exclaimed, gazing down at Dickie as if he were greatly surprised to see him lingering beneath the tree.
Pop looked curiously at the knots of lingering First Latins, and raised his high-top hat in response to their salutations.
Once I knew of a number of wolves and two lions lingering for more than two weeks at the wreckage brought down by a snowslide.
So long as that root of anger lay in my heart, I knew there was still a lingering remnant of condemnable passion.
There is no chronic form of variola lingering for weeks and months after the violence of the fever has abated.
Time had chiseled it to an incisiveness not incongruous with a lingering air of youth.
Some survive but in fragments of fantastic folk-lore, still lingering on ineradicably as the parasites of more modern creeds.
See, see, the enamour'd sun is hasting on apace to his expecting mistress, while thou dull Night art slowly lingering yet.
This lingering remnant was, therefore, inhumanely treated and driven into the wilderness without provisions and without shelter.
Indeed, to this hour I have a lingering belief that cats can foretell the weather.
And there he held her for long, lingering minutes, loath to untwine his arms.
This was the ungracious manner in which the sister took note of his lingering.
Margaret tried to laugh a little, with a lingering hope that he might unbend.
Had the two come to freezeout Camp, and were they lingering about the vicinity now?
She had no intention of lingering in camp, she said, accoutered solely with a hand bag!
The death of the patient suffering from mitral disease is likely to be lingering.
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