Vestige

Examples

• Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Not a vestige of the entry which recorded the marriage of Sir Felix Glyde and Cecilia Jane Elster in the register of the church! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Finally he realized that his invention was not safe even there, and decided that every vestige of his work must be destroyed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The long duration of his malady has probably erased from his mind all vestige of her; and it were well that it should never again be imprinted. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He sprang round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of colour had been driven from his face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• They ranged from a faint trace of extensive diffuse nebulosity to a nebulous star with a mere vestige of cloudiness. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Houses there will take fire and burn, sometimes--actually burn entirely down, and not leave a single vestige behind. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No vestige of the Western Empire, the original Roman Empire, remained as such. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had bad internal pains, which took away all his attentive life, and left him with only a vestige of his consciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was but a short time before the last vestige of its body, root and limb had disappeared, the fragments taken as trophies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As Jane opened her eyes to a realization of the imminent peril which threatened her, her brave young heart gave up at last its final vestige of hope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It may have been that the survivors hoped to retain thereby some vestige of the strength and virtue that had died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Today the game has practically thrown off the last vestige of disrepute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Could it be a vestige of some human instinct come back from an ancient forbear to haunt him with the horror of his people's ways! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Up this I hurried--until now I had not seen a vestige of man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There may be, there probably are, thousands of deposits still untouched containing countless fragments and vestiges of man and his progenitors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To judge by its European vestiges it was a rather small human type, generally with an oval face and a long head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Vestiges of Creation appeared in 1844. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The war against the vestiges of the Kin empire was prosecuted until Kin was altogether subdued (1234). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They may be the last vestiges of an ancient primitive Pre-Nordic Pre-Mongolian strain from which the Nordic races are descended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Portugal had in Africa some vestiges of her ancient claims. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The last vestiges of Roman republicanism had vanished in the days of Aurelian and Diocletian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Accordingly we have now only the very much altered and revised vestiges of that spoken literature of prehistoric times. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Dawn broke upon the vestiges of Rustam's army in flight far beyond the litter of the battlefield. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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