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Word: lingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Half sad, yet sweet, I linger but a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAY LEAVES FROM A BOOK OF HOURS. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...only remains for us who linger a little longer to remember affectionately those who are gone before, to thank God for sparing our own lives, and to resolve to continue doing whatever it may still be in our power to do, for the honor of our class, for the good of our fellow-man, and for the prosperity and welfare of our beloved Alma Mater. Let us hope that we may never be counted among her unworthy or ungrateful children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT DINNER. | 7/3/1878 | See Source »

...pleasure at learning of a new elective in Oral Discussion was destroyed when I found that it was for Seniors alone, and that I could not take it next year, but must linger about the gates of this paradise until I become a Senior before gaining admittance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORAL DISCUSSION. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

...Hazing,' 'rushing,' secret societies, society initiations and badges, and the other barbarities and puerilities, which still linger in most American colleges, are unknown at Oxford and Cambridge; and the relations between students and teachers, undergraduates, graduates, and dons, are unreserved and strongly friendly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...They linger for a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELIEVE IT NOT. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

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