The leopard is not protected, but lingers in the mountainous districts.
Domestic slavery lingers but is moribund.
If any system deserves that name, it is that of village assessment, which still lingers in the memories of the people in the south.
A belief in the spectre-hound still lingers in the wild parts of the north country of England, and in Nidderdale, Yorkshire, nurses frighten children with its name.
Rufus has been gone two years now but the stink of his cigars lingers on.