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  • A throaty voice said, "MISSION FAILURE," but Augustus seemed to think otherwise as he smiled at his remnants on the screen.†   (source)
  • They had been in the locker room so long that the sun was up completely now, although remnants of mist hung over the grass in the stadium.†   (source)
  • It's not just trash now, but the mossy remnants of a knee-high stone wall, and the rusty remains of an old electrical tower from the days when electricity was transmitted by wires.†   (source)
  • Making it, however, was a long, ridiculously involved process: A potful of snow had to be gathered outside in the tempest, the stove assembled and lit, the oatmeal and sugar located, the remnants of yesterday's dinner scraped from my bowl.†   (source)
  • The mat remnants whooshed into flames.†   (source)
  • She said that was because honey remnants attracted roaches.†   (source)
  • Before either Little Man or I could answer, Mama and Big Ma emerged from the field with Stacey, the sacks now blackened remnants in their hands.†   (source)
  • The last stains of sunset had melted away, and the twilight died, too, as he stood there, though its remnants clung reluctantly to everything that was pale in color—pebbles, the dusty road, the figure of the man himself—turning them blue and blurry.†   (source)
  • As soon as he heard them in his mind he discarded them as fussy and stupid, a remnant of past thought.†   (source)
  • Empty boxes were scattered across the floor, and on top of the windowsill, lined up in a neat row, stood the remnants of some long-ago game of Monopoly: a pair of white dice, a tiny red hotel, the smallest green wooden house in the world.†   (source)
  • It was much easier to clean up the three-dimensional remnants of the unfolded proton in synchronous orbit than it was to clean up the one-dimensional string.†   (source)
  • So, having poured the remnants of the coffee from its pot, the Count brushed the biscuit crumbs from his plate onto the window ledge for his feathered friend.†   (source)
  • I would touch the turban I had made with the remnants of my shirt and I would say aloud, "THIS IS GOD'S HAT!"†   (source)
  • It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.†   (source)
  • It was a window into another grave—one that had the dusty remnants of a rotting body.†   (source)
  • Neumann One's vibrating leg shakes the truck lightly, and the sun flares through the remnants of insects smeared across the windows, and a cold wind sets the whole field rustling.†   (source)
  • To make his time in the sack even more uncomfortable there were still several lumps of wood, not to mention sharp screws and nails, in there with him, the final remnants of the coffin-based firewood.†   (source)
  • On both sides, moss-covered statues stood in an overgrowth of shrubbery like the remnants of an abandoned temple.†   (source)
  • A few wind-whipped and decrepit Victorian mansions, remnants of a lost era of seagoing optimism, loomed out of the snowfall on the town's sporadic hills.†   (source)
  • It still echoed with the remnants of the power that had once given these trees such unnatural beauty.†   (source)
  • It's then, when all of the physical remnants of my past are washed away, that I'm reminded of Lesslie.†   (source)
  • The remnants of Rhaegar's army fled back to King's Landing.†   (source)
  • It was late afternoon, with red streaks cutting the summer sky, and the last remnants of the day were fading.†   (source)
  • My father poked at the remnants of his crab.†   (source)
  • His face was weary, even dazed, as if he hadn't slept a wink, and an unmistakable remnant of misery showed in his eyes.†   (source)
  • I would come upon them, here and there in the house, the houses; tracks of her presence, remnants of some lost intention, like signs on a road that turns out to lead nowhere.†   (source)
  • The longer I stare at the black smears on the knife hilt, the more convinced I am that they're remnants of rifle grease.†   (source)
  • Leo poked at the remnants of his fire, turning over red-hot coals with his bare hand.†   (source)
  • He was alone at sea for two days, with sharks below and storms above, clinging to the remnants of the barrel, when he finally washed ashore near Lattakia, fifty miles north of Arwad Island.†   (source)
  • Sodden fragments littered the school yard, with only a few torn and illegible remnants dangling on the ropes.†   (source)
  • There were only remnants and artifacts left to him now.†   (source)
  • The last remnants of strength fled from Cinder, leaving her exhausted and weak.†   (source)
  • THE LAST REMNANT of the world I knew ripped apart on a sunny, warm Sunday afternoon.†   (source)
  • My first instinct was to climb back up the tree, and I ran around to the other side, stepping on the torn remnants of the rebel girl's bag.†   (source)
  • My older brother Tsalig helped me create ice skates from all kinds of unlikely materials, metal remnants retrieved from our grandfather the blacksmith and bits of wood from the firewood pile.†   (source)
  • Gitl, known throughout the country as Tante Gitl and Gitl the Bear, organized a rescue mission dedicated to salvaging the lives of young survivors and locating the remnants of their families.†   (source)
  • Every so often there passed through the shop a piece of museum quality too damaged or broken to save; for Hobie, who sorrowed over these elegant old remnants as if they were unfed children or mistreated cats, it was a point of duty to rescue what he could (a pair of finials here, a set of finely turned legs there) and then with his gifts as carpenter and joiner to recombine them into beautiful young Frankensteins that were in some cases plainly fanciful but in others such faithful models of the period that they were all but indistinguishable from the real thing.†   (source)
  • Was it possible to find remnants of the culture of honor in the modern era?†   (source)
  • Belky, Enrique's sister, notices cloudy yellow fingerprints on Maraa Isabel's jeans: glue, a remnant of Enrique's embrace.†   (source)
  • Cressida films him in silence for a few minutes, but just as he pulls the one remnant of his previous life from the ashes—a twisted metal poker—she starts to question him about his family, his job, life in the Seam.†   (source)
  • Here was a tangible remnant of the Riders' glory, tarnished though it was by the relentless pull of time.†   (source)
  • But sometimes I'd look in the mirror, studying myself, trying to find some remnants of my Italian heritage.†   (source)
  • It was said that they could see the future because they refused to judge it, but lately more and more members of the suit families were shrugging off the caterpillars' prophecies, claiming a reliance on them was nothing more than silly superstition, a remnant from more barbaric times.†   (source)
  • Once the domain of the prevailing Nez Perce tribe, the remnants of their presence are scattered throughout this wilderness, as well as those of white settlers traveling through on their way to the West.†   (source)
  • Most of the remnants of the drapes were cold.†   (source)
  • The last tattered remnants of the afternoon's cloud cover dissipate through the treetops and color returns to the world.†   (source)
  • Most of Candor and the remnants of Dauntless are already gathered.†   (source)
  • Remnants of the speaker cover surfaced for days.†   (source)
  • As I mopped up the remnants of my breakfast with an end of bread, I realized that I had a problem.†   (source)
  • The Germans were too cultured and magnanimous a race, said the newspaper, to confine even parasites like the Jews to ghettos, a medieval remnant unworthy of the new order in Europe.†   (source)
  • Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.†   (source)
  • In order to become a new person, he has to lose all the outer remnants of his raiment, all the things he has acquired from being the son of his father.†   (source)
  • But she knew that there was no reason to fear them: a ghost was nothing more than the remnants of a person's aura that remained attached to a particular place.†   (source)
  • Only remnants remained of the compound wall.†   (source)
  • There were remnants of dresses and suits I had seen her wear all my life.†   (source)
  • Many believe we can look back and see the historical remnants of those who mastered the Mysteries ....in the stories of sorcerers, magicians, and healers.†   (source)
  • Upstairs, in the room Henrietta once shared with Day, a few remnants of life lay scattered on the floor: a tattered work boot with metal eyes but no laces, a TruAde soda bottle with a white and red label, a tiny woman's dress shoe with open toes.†   (source)
  • Threaded beams of sunlight were burning away the remnants of mist, and the puddles on the sidewalk were drying.†   (source)
  • Paul asked JAcob, his eyes locked on the last remnant of the huge meal the werewolves had consumed.†   (source)
  • The Babel story is provably false, because if they built a tower to Heaven and God didn't knock it down, then it would still be around somewhere, or at least a visible remnant of it.†   (source)
  • On the shelves there were still a few illegible books, their pages chewed up by the damp, and on the floor there were the remnants of ancient magazines whose pages had been scattered by the wind.†   (source)
  • Down we all dropped again and went back to work with the last remnants of our strength, counting the push-ups.†   (source)
  • She took off the taffeta blouse with the beaded embroidery and threw it across the room onto the easy chair in the corner, she tossed her bodice over her shoulder to the other side of the bed, with one pull she removed her long ruffled skirt, her satin garter belt and funereal stockings, and she threw everything on the floor until the room was carpeted with the last remnants of her mourning.†   (source)
  • There was the evidence of the dinner remnants on the table, and the dead Duke across from it with destruction around him.†   (source)
  • When we heard the last thunk of rocket remnants hitting slack, we went out and began collecting the pieces.†   (source)
  • Wind moved over the asphalt, whisking the remnants of snow and a few new flakes, swirling them in corners.†   (source)
  • I had wanted to get us out of the water two hours before, but we kept hearing the sound of falling trees and the crackling remnants of the terrible firestorm.†   (source)
  • The little fish were more bone than flesh; 'the flesh had been boiled off the bone and had disintegrated, leaving a few remnants on head and tail.†   (source)
  • A remnant of some prehistoric period when dinosaurs roamed the earth and men fought with flint tools?†   (source)
  • I knew it wasn't a great idea, flying home, mostly high on the monster or crashing fast, the last tiny remnants of speed and I fighting to feel good, despite what the buzz had become' low, that is, so low it was hard to remember the best of it.†   (source)
  • These are the remnants of intense pain.†   (source)
  • It had taken over six hours for the final remnants of the assault force—the Afghans, prodded by Adam the entire way—to reach the objective rally point.†   (source)
  • Ghost towns such as Slocan—those old mining settlements, sometimes abandoned, sometimes with a remnant community—were reopened, and row upon row of two-family wooden huts were erected.†   (source)
  • The remnants of the D team took Shiva to the recovery room and then waited in the locker room.†   (source)
  • It was a light smell, but this time Daagoo knew that it was no remnant of a summer fire.†   (source)
  • So it had to watch, dying but not dead, as they packed up the remnants of their dreams and left—some to the arms of a world that they would have to pry open to take them, most to inherit another aging street and the privilege of clinging to its decay.†   (source)
  • Thus the last loose strings were tied, the K.B.I. had now assembled an unshakable case, for tests established that the shells had been discharged by Hickock's shotgun, and remnants of cord and tape were of a piece with the material to bind and silence the victims.†   (source)
  • It was loud, had a clanging bell that sounded whenever she reached the end of a line, and looked like some remnant from the days of the Pony Express.†   (source)
  • Hattie laughed, scraping her spoon around her empty bowl for the last remnants of porridge.†   (source)
  • LaTisha's in that program, and so is Phillip Atkins, a last remnant of his days as a straight-arrow eighth grader.†   (source)
  • Augustus thought they were crazed remnants, mostly, like the old mountain man who worked night and day gathering bones to no purpose.†   (source)
  • For the remnants of the American army who had gotten away, it had been a close call.†   (source)
  • I felt greatly reassured, much better already in fact, and the last remnants of my anger at Farmer seeped away.†   (source)
  • That remnant of Tumaini gave me hope.†   (source)
  • If this naming revolution was indeed inspired by Black Power, it would be one of the movement's most enduring remnants.†   (source)
  • The railroad tracks we walked as a shortcut to the store are overgrown with weeds, more a scar on the ground than a remnant of rails.†   (source)
  • MY EYELIDS FLUTTER open, fighting off the remnants of dreams.†   (source)
  • He kicked something in the snow and bent down to retrieve the remnants of a chain.†   (source)
  • With each step, I shed the remnants of my nightmare, leaving it behind in the dark where it belongs.†   (source)
  • Indeed, a remnant still dwelt there of the Dunedain, the kings of Men that came over the Sea out of Westernesse; but they were dwindling fast and the lands of their North Kingdom were falling far and wide into waste.†   (source)
  • Thirty years after sailing away from a financial dead end and the remnants of a once-noble family in Japan, he found himself in the middle of America's Depression and on the move again, with eight kids and a wife this time,working his way down the California coast picking prunes, peaches, Brussels sprouts, sending his children into the orchards like any migrant worker's family, hoping their combined earnings would leave a little left over after everyone was fed and the cars gassed up for the next day's search for work.†   (source)
  • "What's to be done, Blackberry?" he asked, making his way to the bolt fixed on the bow, with its ragged remnant of painter.†   (source)
  • Fang glided to where Iggy was hovering, listening for any remnant of sound.†   (source)
  • They seem to be the remnants of a great volcanic crater that rose up from the ocean floor millennia ago.†   (source)
  • He was covered in clods of dirt and smears of clay, naked save for the torn remnants of a winding sheet that trailed behind him.†   (source)
  • The remnants of that little army had children—God, how they multiplied—the South went through the Reconstruction with only one permanent political change: there was no more slavery.†   (source)
  • These were the remnants of a failed attempt at importing exotic artifacts from Asia to sell in art houses and at swap meets.†   (source)
  • The blockhouses were hideous remnants of the island defenders' dedication in a cause they knew was lost.†   (source)
  • Skepticism is one of the few remnants of our bookish past, and most of us hold on to it tenaciously.†   (source)
  • His mule was standing in a clump of weed about forty yards out along the remnant of the coach road.†   (source)
  • Riding the muddy surface were sections of picket fence, giant tree limbs, crab pots, remnants of floats and crab houses, boats, and—†   (source)
  • The somewhat bewildered remnants of the class, which had dwindled to a third of its size, went on their own across the street for coffee.†   (source)
  • Remnants of clothing; it wasn't mentioned before.†   (source)
  • The light was from a different fire after all; he'd been fooled because this new blaze was almost directly behind the still-flickering remnants of the Saturday October 7 fire.†   (source)
  • What I saw next sent a bolt of adrenaline through me so quickly that I was shocked out of any last remnant of sleep.†   (source)
  • Padre Esteban walked with a slight limp; it was the only remnant of his brush with the Spanish Flu almost four decades earlier.†   (source)
  • The remnants of the day's light tangle in the sky.†   (source)
  • Rather, the cold, lifeless blue was a leftover, the last remnant of light that remained after the dark moon had leached all the other colors from the spectrum.†   (source)
  • He saw a dining-room table of dark wood that was cluttered with glasses, coffee cups, and the remnants of sandwiches.†   (source)
  • First it will be orange and amber, like Rome on the opposite side, glowing like the remnant of a bonfire.†   (source)
  • Even now I could still see the remnants of what had once been.†   (source)
  • I was as ruthless as a farmer after harvest, yanking out every last remnant of what last season had been his most prized crop.†   (source)
  • This referred to the ancient, ruined Indian canals that still ran across the land, the remnants of a lost civilization that was now rising again as a result of the marriage of an American man and Mexican woman.†   (source)
  • The tradition was, as usual, vague, but certainly there had been some buildings of some kind, for the remnants and foundations had remained until they were taken for new buildings.†   (source)
  • They were a poor remnant of what had once been a thriving dwarven society, a band of refugees beaten and broken by the loss of their homeland and heritage.†   (source)
  • It's another remnant from my grandfather living here.†   (source)
  • He saw remnants of the wire canopy that had covered the former prison.†   (source)
  • Where else could the remnant of Jewry that had escaped Hitler's ovens go?†   (source)
  • He's intentionally lost that huge baggage, those encumbering remnants of blood and flesh, and because of this he carries no memory of a house, no memory of a land, he seems to have emerged from nowhere.†   (source)
  • During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed.†   (source)
  • "And I will execute judgment upon thee and the whole remnant of thee shall I scatter to the winds ...." I started crawling backwards on my elbows, dragging my bleeding and useless left leg.†   (source)
  • You can be kind to the poor remnants of the Dwarf people, like myself.†   (source)
  • Oh man, it is purple" At the Halloween carnival that fall, Misty draped herself in the carpet remnants and went as the One-Eyed Purple People Eater, and I painted my face red and went as the devil.†   (source)
  • The Remnant Workforce Tony Scalzitti, the factory manager, guides me through the logic of Maddie's employment.†   (source)
  • According to Genesis, God instructed Noah to build an ark to save himself, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals after God decided to destroy the world because of mankind's evil deeds.†   (source)
  • It appears to be copies of copies with legacy and remnant code scattered throughout, much of it haying nothing to do with fabber operations, per se.†   (source)
  • It's a remnant of the Violet who came Before.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, after a little while he did go to her and his gentleness melted her last remnants of control, for she began to weep.†   (source)
  • At present, it was filled with images of human misery, much of it emanating from the shattered remnants of an ancient land called Syria.†   (source)
  • Where once ten thousand Reds had stood, there was just a field of bodies, and maybe a thousand, a ragged remnant, gathered near the water at the bottom of the hill.†   (source)
  • Maybe, a reactionary remnant of male — SONG.†   (source)
  • "Paisans," Pig said, taking our wine glasses and pouring all the remnants into his glass.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the clearing was a rough bench beside a pile of logs and the damp remnants of a charcoal fire.†   (source)
  • He slid down a drain spout to the ground, forced his way into the kitchen and took a butcher knife, a ball of strong cord and the two-pound remnant of a pot roast.†   (source)
  • By this time the Indian fighting had become like dangerous cattle drives—the tribes were forced into revolt, driven and decimated, and the sad, sullen remnants settled on starvation lands.†   (source)
  • She made little clucking sounds at her disheveled favorite, enticing him with the remnants of a bagel.†   (source)
  • I fell in with the remnants of that group in London and began to do a certain amount of acting.†   (source)
  • The effect of these two inventions upon human society could only be described as devastating, and they had swept away the last remnants of the Puritan aberration.†   (source)
  • These were painful luxuries, almost his only remnant of routine from before The Day.†   (source)
  • Kicking the remnants of her dress aside, she bent down and very gently returned the baby to its mother's back.†   (source)
  • These uninvited remnants of Krueger's family seemed to him fate's crowning joke, a deliberate trick, which was more than he could bear.†   (source)
  • But on the rare occasions when he smiles without sneering, his personality possesses the remnant of a humorous, romantic, irresponsible Irish charm — that of the beguiling ne'er-do-well, with a strain of the sentimentally poetic, attractive to women and popular with men.†   (source)
  • Across the end of the road, crumbling under her eyes, was a two-story building with a remnant of gallery, and that was Jenny's destination.†   (source)
  • Jack put out the fire and tossed the remnants of their meal downstream.†   (source)
  • She lapsed back upon the few remaining remnants of chemical mist.†   (source)
  • She crouched against the sill, cramped and motionless, clutching on to her last remnants of happiness, her mind as clear as the sky itself.†   (source)
  • Your own wisdom must decide your course, but thirteen is small remnant of the great folk of Durin that once dwelt here, and now are scattered far.   (source)
    remnant = remaining part
  • "I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains of the North."   (source)
  • It could be a leftover or a remnant or whatever they call them.†   (source)
    remnant = a small amount that remains after the rest is gone
  • With the cameras rolling, he walks toward the center describing Einstein's general theory of relativity and goes into some facts—black holes are the remnants of former stars; they're so dense that not even light can escape; they lurk inside every galaxy; they're the most destructive force in the cosmos; as a black hole passes through space, it engulfs everything that comes too close to it, stars, comets, planets.†   (source)
    remnants = small amounts that remains after the rest is gone
  • Garrett shook his head and smiled, still feeling the remnants of her touch lingering on his arm.†   (source)
  • Lathered over the remnants of his grief, anxiety now twisted his gut.†   (source)
  • I wondered where she was, felt the remnants of anger starting to rise again, but forced them away.†   (source)
  • It reminds me of the remnants of the murdered snowman in my driveway.†   (source)
  • All around the orchard, the frozen blackened remnants of the harvest were beginning to levitate.†   (source)
  • FREMEN: the free tribes of Arrakis, dwellers in the desert, remnants of the Zensunni Wanderers.†   (source)
  • Under the fading remnant of her tan, Rachel went very pale.†   (source)
  • Thomas had almost expected the skeletal remnant of a person—someone on the verge of death.†   (source)
  • On the rocks the remnants of some dark seamoss.†   (source)
  • Even under the best of circumstances, remnants of your magic will haunt this girl evermore.†   (source)
  • Now I'm conscious only of an animal need to keep the remnants of our band alive.†   (source)
  • Part of me knew she was right, but the remnants of my godly self rebelled at the idea.†   (source)
  • I look around, and take off toward what I now believe to be the remnants of Agloe's General Store.†   (source)
  • Roose Bolton and the remnants of his host are north of us.†   (source)
  • I found her there, smiling in her sleep, stretched out on the moth-eaten remnants of old Barrabas.†   (source)
  • I wipe up pumpkin remnants off the floor and take the rag to the sink and rinse it out.†   (source)
  • I used a piece of cloth that I cut from the remnants of a blanket.†   (source)
  • Below the streetlamp, mist was rising from the ground, ,a remnant of the heat of the day.†   (source)
  • It was the remnants of the big bang, the still-warm embers of Creation.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was elf camouflage—a remnant of the time when they were one with nature.†   (source)
  • Now the last remnants of the Jewish inhabitants of the ghetto are being exterminated.†   (source)
  • THIN REMNANTS OF MOONLIGHT PERMEATED THE WOODS.†   (source)
  • They also had to be aimed at the remnants of my team.†   (source)
  • Celaena lifted the jagged remnant of the staff in her hand.†   (source)
  • The last remnants of their army the birdmen and cat-people remained, wandering aimlessly.†   (source)
  • Her pain lost in her fury, she swung at his blade with the remnant of the staff.†   (source)
  • 5 — Like the Remnants of a Ravaged Army†   (source)
  • Roose Bolton had re-formed the battered remnants of their other host at the mouth of the causeway.†   (source)
  • There are small remnants of gift chaos all over the living-room floor.†   (source)
  • Wisps of white clung to his chin—maybe cobwebs or the remnants of a beard.†   (source)
  • Remnants of the vessels are often found as flotsam on the beaches of the two islands.†   (source)
  • The remnants of the Stark lines shattered like glass beneath the hammer of their charge.†   (source)
  • She ignored his rotting teeth as she jerked her chin toward the remnants of Xavier.†   (source)
  • The remnants of the karpoi scattered in the wind.†   (source)
  • No, this feels like the remnant of a lover.†   (source)
  • There were crescents of gray shadow under them, she saw, the remnants of sleepless nights.†   (source)
  • I wad up the remnant and press it just below her rib cage, against the bullet hole weeping blood.†   (source)
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