Sharks lingered about them, waiting to feed upon the unhappy ones who fell into the sea overcome with physical exhaustion, or who cast themselves from that dizzy scaffold, unable longer to endure the horrors of lingering death.
A thousand prayers of gratitude seemed hardly to quiet the souls of the lingering ones for that great charity of Heaven.
But no, the betrayer in the very instant of his treason has that changeless tenderness lingering around him, and that merciful hand beckoning to him still.
The earliest visitors to the sepulchre leave it, not with the lingering sorrow of those who have no more that they can do, but with the quick, buoyant step of people charged with great and glad tidings.
Whenever an ailment is of a lingering character, especially if accompanied by increasing emaciation and not classifiable as one of the familiar maladies, it is attributed to magic causes.
The fine flossy spiculæ of a species of bamboo[15] placed in the food or in the drink is supposed to cause a slow, lingering sickness that ends in death.
I was assured that the party whom it represented was taken with a lingering disease shortly afterwards and finally died.
Certain individuals may have the reputation of being able to compound various noxious substances, the taking of which, it is believed, may superinduce lingering ailments.
Administered in the food, it produces a slow lingering disease that leads to the grave.
He flung on his cap and buttoned up his coat, lingering at the door for a parting word from his father.
To all appearance the bold lad had escaped one death only to perish by another more lingering and painful; but even now he did not despair.
Meanwhile the first days after Deering's departure wore a soft, refracted light like the radiance lingering after sunset.
It would be stranger if he had even hesitated about it, though this he had indeed done, for some days lingering with mind only half made up.
Lingering abaft the binnacle, with their hands resting on the taffrail, they look back at the land, their eyes fixed upon the summit of a hill, ere long to become lost to their view by the setting of the sun.
Though lingering at the gate, and still far-off, De Lara had observed the affair of the tresses, clearly comprehending the symbolism of the act.
For the first day, with some lingering hope of being released; but afterwards despairingly, as the hours passed and nothing occurred to change it.
Something decided this project in the negative for him, and after lingering moments he put on his hat and went out for a walk.
You're sure there's nothing I can do," said Theron, lingering on the outer side of the gate.
The two men shook hands, with an emphatic and lingering clasp.
Yes," he replied, with a lingering dilatory note, which deepened upon reflection into a sigh.
After lingering awhile on the steps of the hotel, and satisfying himself by peeps through the glass doors that the coast was clear, he ventured inside.
He cast another reluctant, lingering glance at the sunlit elm boughs, and, turning, went indoors.
After lingering about abstractedly for a long while, she quietly returned into the Hsiao Hsiang lodge, supporting herself on Tzu Chüan.
Sudden execution they might have braved, though that will appal almost any heart; but lingering torture was what they might fear, to which death should succeed only when nature could bear no more.
On arriving and seeing the dilapidated condition of the prison, they confidently thought they had been brought here for execution, and tried to prepare themselves to meet a dreadful and perhaps lingering death.
Yaqui then joined the group, and his piercing eyes roved from one to the other, lingering longest over Ladd.
It took time for slow-thinking Belding to discover anything wrong in his household, especially as the fact of the Gales lingering there made Mrs. Belding and Nell, for the most part, hide their real and deeper feelings.
The lingering brightness of the sunset lightened the trail, and the descent to the arroyo was swift and easy.
A cool wind blew up the canyon, sifting the sand through the dry sage, driving away the last of the lingering heat.
But a few of those noble spirits who breasted the storm of the Revolution are lingering on earth.
Some memory of them stirred in him there, with the noiseless flow of the lingering water at his feet, and above the quiet of the stars; the thoughts of his youth came back to him, and his heart ached with their longing.
She had to defend herself because she would not be defended by others, and she only sought to strike swiftly and unerringly so as to spare herself and him all needless or lingering throes.
There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dulness.
Through the open casement there came on the rising wind of the storm, in the light of the last lingering sunbeam, a beautiful night-moth, begotten by some cruel hot-house heat in the bosom of some frail exiled tropical flower.
Yet it was dear to him; this sad and stately city, waiting for the slow death of an unpitied and lingering decay.
Labrador, From the icy bridge of the Northern seas, which the white bear wanders o'er, Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice and the luckless forms below In the sunless cold of the lingering night into marble statues grow!
And there stirred far down within him the ghost of warmth, as from sparks lingering beneath a mound of flaky ash.
It was past that disillusioned moment which divides the day and night-still and lingering and warm, with hawthorn scent and lilac scent clinging on the riverside air.
The company itself, having outlived alike its fame and its infamy, lingering inappropriately like some guest that "hath outstayed his welcome time," was wound up at last within the memory of living men.
Sidenote: 1716--Mary Wortley Montagu] While Jacobites were lingering in prison and dying on Tower Hill, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was writing from abroad imperishable letters to her friends.
The final lines of the poem express the lingering regret with which he bids a temporary farewell to the Muses.
Owing to his situation on high ground, open to the west, he remained enveloped in the lingering aureate haze till a time when the eastern part of the churchyard was in obscurity, and damp with rising dew.
So Somerset waited, his eyeslingering on the little world of objects around him, till they all became quite familiar.
In imagination he could see before him the thing, who had dared to threaten him, lingering out the moments of a hated life in slow agony.
The last lingering doubt of the suspicious invalid was removed by the entrance of Emily herself.
Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you have still a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.
Three thousand years ago are not agone, They are still lingering in this summer morn, And Memnon's Mother sprightly greets us now, Wearing her youthful radiance on her brow.
