Remnants

Examples

• Hancock sent a brigade to clear his front of all remnants that might be left of Longstreet's or Hill's commands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Men had very little time and disposition for play, and this, coupled with the remnants of Puritanic influence, left the game in the hands of those who lived by their wits rather than work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Up until yesterday you preserved some remnants of manhood. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There were quite a number of remnants of tribes in the vicinity of Portland in Oregon, and of Fort Vancouver in Washington Territory. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I sound the depths of my heart, and try in vain to draw thence the expressions that can typify my love for these remnants of my race. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd's breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And now, we can only fish among the rubbish heaps for the remnants of their old expression. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At 6 (Fig. 170) the remnants of hair are removed by hand, and at 7 the skin is washed clean. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I poured these remnants into the other barrels, sat down, and pulled the barrel over my head, bottom up. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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