Remnant

Examples

• GENERAL: All indications now are that Lee will attempt to reach Danville with the remnant of his force. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And my portmanteau, with my few clothes and little pocket-book enclasping the remnant of my fifteen pounds, where were they? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Lord Raymond was the sole remnant of a noble but impoverished family. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Attack Hood at once and wait no longer for a remnant of your cavalry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Taking the weed from his lips, he threw the remnant amongst the shrubswhere, for a moment, it lay glowing in the gloom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The assize of bread is, so far as I know, the only remnant of this ancient usage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Dead, sir--dead,' said the stranger, applying to his right eye the brief remnant of a very old cambric handkerchief. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I had one morsel of bread yet: the remnant of a roll I had bought in a town we passed through at noon with a stray penny--my last coin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He might as well have been born with a yard and a half of it, and a remnant over. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Jane, I approached the verge of despair; a remnant of self-respect was all that intervened between me and the gulf. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She repaired to the dining-room, where the clear but now low remnant of a fire still burned in the grate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No more is needed to completely shatter the last remnant of my superstitious belief in the divinity of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• For the whole remnant of your life, if you survive the test--some, it is said, die under it--you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We were a failing remnant, tamed to mere submission to the coming blow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We are presently to die, let us then enjoy to its full relish the remnant of our lives. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• 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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