Word: lingered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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That expectations linger...
...Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still linger among Bostonians...
...Linger through our night of time...
Among the roses linger...
...bear to leave you," O boxes, whence we issued forth on those eventful afternoons feeling ourselves able to win victory from whatsoever club might combat us, on whose doors are inscribed the beloved names of Bush, Wells, Eustis, Perrin, White, and others over whose memories we linger with feelings nearly akin to reverence? But our sadness departs when we remember that those doors will be preserved and inlaid on the frescoed walls of the future Jarvis Hall...