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Before Trump, there lingered the illusion that the public sphere contained something more than black-and-white choices and disastrous moral threats.

But for the many -- even those who have long since wearied of baseball-is-the-cosmos metaphors -- there lingered the sense of having shared something fleeting yet memorable.

To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and ­chamber-of-commerce boosterism.

You have looked at the faces of some of those who were your comrades, who turned their eyes away from you because somewhere in their mortal being there lingered the remnants of a sense of shame, always and for ever whispering softly - no to treachery!

Soon, to their surprise and shame, they found that among the combatant English there lingered the hobby of acting like those whom the Germans had known through Shakespeare: "We give express charge that in our marches through the country there be nothing compelled from the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or abused, in disdainful language".

Zúltepec was never rebuilt but the memory of what happened there lingered in its name.

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And there lingers in the air the sickly-sweet smell of decomposing bodies under the rubble.

Still, even with all the hardships here, there lingers earnest support for the PRI.

Was there lingering resentment about the ugly fan behavior his wife and other Rangers family members were subjected to at Yankee Stadium in the American League Championship Series in October?

I tried to understand the anger in my heart and not let it control me, but I could always feel it there, lingering.

Even so, there lingers a sympathy for the murderer and a curiosity about motive.

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