Whereas summer still lingered in Florence, winter had already taken hold in Cramer.

They weaved through towns where summer lingered in February and rode hills where spring came like an onlooker, gazing at them with eyes of cherry blossom.

In Cenaria, the rainy season was starting, but here the summer lingered on and Vi believed in being comfortable as she traveled, fashion be damned.

Indian summer lingered into November that year and the warm days were bright days for those at Tara.

Yet summer lingered, fading and fainting among her hills, deepening the purple of her valleys, spinning a shroud of haze from waning powers and sated raptures, dying with the calm content of having lived and lived well.

The summer we had courted and won came to us sweetly and lingered long, and in time I learned to stop thinking of my body as myself.

In California, summer lingers longer than in Bart Giamatti's New Haven.

The sound of running and falling water was loud, and the evening was filled with a faint scent of trees and flowers, as if summer still lingered in Elrond's gardens.

These were the last days of September: summer had lingered on and it had been wonderfully sunny all along.

In years when the warm Alsatian summer lingers into late autumn and the rains hold off, some producers will make a "vendange tardive," which means late harvest.