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  • That should provide hours of calm and keep us clear of any poisonous residue.†   (source)
  • The cell was roughly six by ten, with a metal bunk covered by a thin mattress and a woolen army blanket; a toilet without seat or toilet paper; a washbowl, brownish from residue and grime; a small metal shelf upon which was a pan, a tin cup, and a tablespoon.†   (source)
  • "Wow," I said, after an uncomfortable pause, looking at Platt's big-knuckled hands resting palms down on the table—hands that after all these years still had a blunt, brutal look, a residue of old cruelty about them.†   (source)
  • Also, organic cows, like Rosie the organic chicken, are never fed corn that contains residues of atrazine, the herbicide commonly sprayed on American cornfields.†   (source)
  • Tiny panes of glass, probably bulletproof and webbed with dirt and the residue of smeared insect parts, give me a blurred view of the long, dark hallway beyond, and several flickering electric lights.†   (source)
  • There is a—slight—(She burps again, she turns into HERMIONE) Slight—overpowering—fishy residue.†   (source)
  • Over the centuries, residue seeped through the floor, infusing the land beneath with the wine's personality.†   (source)
  • The stuff is guaranteed to kill every single bug in two hours' time and then dissipate with no residue.†   (source)
  • I look down and take inventory, and then brush off with my hands the ashen residue left from the fallen beast.†   (source)
  • They'll melt the poles, boil the oceans, and then use the residue to salt what's left of the continents so nothing will ever grow there again.†   (source)
  • But still, the residue was a very large puddle.†   (source)
  • Knowledge, however, may be psychological residue within Subject A. advisory: Department B-2 holds no authority under Input for Recommendations and functions as Advisory.†   (source)
  • My mouth was dry and tasted like gasoline residue.†   (source)
  • He rubbed more of the powder residue between his fingertips.†   (source)
  • To make matters worse, the animals used to make about one-quarter of the nation's ground beef — worn-out dairy cattle — are the animals most likely to be diseased and riddled with antibiotic residues.†   (source)
  • The day before, Yuk Yuk and Daddio had chug-a-lugged several pints of tequila, as in the old country where men of leather tamed the wilds of land and animal only to be enslavedby the maguey's juice, fueled by the residue of herbs, the ferment of harvests — quenching a deeper thirst.†   (source)
  • Could be the toxic residue in the atmosphere is diminishing.†   (source)
  • Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately, though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment, not to say shock, remained detectable in my expression.†   (source)
  • We made small talk, the cops and I, about the July Fourth fireworks and the weather, while my hands were tested for gunshot residue and the slick inside of my cheek was cotton-tipped.†   (source)
  • Did you know we're using spice residue as raw material and already have our own factory to manufacture filmbase?†   (source)
  • The old glove above it looks like it's got frost on it, but I guess it's just residues from the soaking last night.†   (source)
  • Another thing troubling her, she said, was a bloody residue that had come out on the catheter, indicating problems with the stomach wall.†   (source)
  • The water evaporated against Hatsue's skin, leaving a residue of salt behind.†   (source)
  • The residue of the human spirit smeared on inanimate objects was all he could withstand of humanity.†   (source)
  • I don't know if it was the squid guts he'd eaten, but his saliva had a kind of gray thickness to it, which made me think of the residue left on the cutting board after fish have been cleaned.†   (source)
  • Perhaps this was the residue of growing up in Muscatine with a cosmopolitan mother.†   (source)
  • For the blood had yet to dry, the soot was soft, the cracks were most obviously freshly broken, and, I am told, the residue of powerful magics could still be detected within the area.†   (source)
  • I know, from the gunpowder residue, that Gun B was fired.†   (source)
  • Scraps of food, gummy residue from spattered oil, and mysterious trails of sugar covered the floor.†   (source)
  • The lime itself, which is the soft, calcified residue of seashells and coral, is buried in layers of rock, and one had to break through to it with a pick, and then extract the seam of lime with a shovel.†   (source)
  • I slipped the ring into my pants pocket, then studied the circle of slime residue on my palm.†   (source)
  • Light to light, she thought, moving back from the heat, the roar, the powdery residue swirling in the air.†   (source)
  • No matter how they scrubbed their hands, the residue of Red Hot Mama had a way of sticking around, as pesty and persistent as a chapter one at a high school dance.†   (source)
  • It was noon before they found water, a silty residue in the floor of an adobe tank.†   (source)
  • Then there is behavioral residue, which is defined as the inadvertent clues we leave behind: dirty laundry on the floor, for instance, or an alphabetized CD collection.†   (source)
  • A hull fracture would kill you just as fast, just down here there'd be less residue for the next boat to try and recover."†   (source)
  • Seawater leaked in and reacted with the missile liquid fuel residue, causing an explosion that killed three of its sailors.†   (source)
  • A bat, metal tool, or other foreign object would have almost certainly left some sort of residue or telltale mark on the skin.†   (source)
  • We find a small residue of urine.†   (source)
  • Yossarian gorged himself in the mess hall until he thought he would explode and then sagged back in a contented stupor, his mouth filmy with a succulent residue.†   (source)
  • He stumbles forward over a slight Polish accent, residue of his childhood in Eastern Europe, as he tells them that they'll meet with him at the end of the program to "see how you've done and how you've all enjoyed your visit."†   (source)
  • This time, I got a new kind of twinge in my gut, ever so faint, as if a hollow had been here and gone, and I was sensing its residue.†   (source)
  • When he spoke, Dawson could smell the alcohol on his breath, and his voice was raspy with the residue of the unfiltered Camels he'd been smoking since he was a child.†   (source)
  • After thirty years of heavy pipe smoking, the entire office was tinged with a brownish residue.†   (source)
  • The white residue billowed about his head.†   (source)
  • She had bound my feet up in hand-me-down shoes—handed down from people I had never seen—and slicked down my hair with the slimy residue from that bottomless, dust-covered bottle of Rose Hair Oil that she had used to weigh down a million cowlicks on the untamed head of my brother Sam.†   (source)
  • Clairvoyants have long claimed to feel a residue of psychic energy on common objects, left by the people who have touched them.†   (source)
  • There was a residue of pain there.†   (source)
  • The bleach residue kept the water from growing anything.†   (source)
  • She was covered in smears of silvery residue.†   (source)
  • It would have been easier to pacify her had we not ourselves suffered from quite a residue of childhood apprehensions, or had we been able to advance some real idea of the region to set against its morbid reputation.†   (source)
  • Beyond the cauldron were long wooden tables covered with beakers and flasks encrusted with black residue.†   (source)
  • I looked at my hands, covered with bean residue and pieces of chips, but basically empty.†   (source)
  • Yet her stomach is almost completely empty, with no pill residue whatsoever.†   (source)
  • —who could not tolerate the slashing, braying residue that called itself his MOTHER.†   (source)
  • A mild insecurity about language may be part of the American birthright, psychological residue from the one fiber in the colonial cord that was never quite severed.†   (source)
  • But we had the bitter residue 228 of humiliation and anger on our side.†   (source)
  • The texture was kind of gritty and there was residue that stuck to my fingers as I rolled it.†   (source)
  • It was altered the instant I got on the line, of course; a prearranged signal for a swift goodbye, but the residue remained.†   (source)
  • Then, if you listened hard, you could hear the accumulated song of the city, the residue and reflection of whole ages and their destruction.†   (source)
  • In another pile was the walnut residue sheared off the call barrels, which I turned on the lathe inside my shop.†   (source)
  • The Starfire drifted amongst the residue of the battle, so powered down as to appear as nothing more than more scrap, as "Per L'Eternita" played on the speakers and Tyler nursed a snifter of Centennial and a Cuban.†   (source)
  • Names, dates, residue.†   (source)
  • They had received only a residue of fallout from Tampa and Orlando, and none at all from Miami and Jacksonville.†   (source)
  • The only residue in fact would be things Wharfinger didn't lie about.†   (source)
  • Supercharged with a prurient residue—overflow, I imagine, of my Leslie daydreams—I had a sudden impulse to creep up behind Sophie and nuzzle her neck while filling my hands with her breasts.†   (source)
  • Here the gigantic cattle trucks rested and scraped out the residue left by their recent cargoes.†   (source)
  • The hangover's residue of relaxation had freed me of the tensions that had always defeated me before.†   (source)
  • It was a folded bit of paper, wet and pale and thin, trembling in the air and clinging to the pedestal of the column, as though this were the residue of some great wave that had rolled upon the rock and then receded for another time.†   (source)
  • No ammonia residue.†   (source)
  • SEMUTA: the second narcotic derivative (by crystal extraction) from burned residue of elacca wood.†   (source)
  • Quentin peered inside the nozzle and then ran his fingers inside it, wiping out the greasy residue.†   (source)
  • The salt had dried at the corners of her lips and left a residue behind.†   (source)
  • They were saying to each other, 'Let's see if the residue tests cut our way.†   (source)
  • His forehead had residues of sweat and his mouth was slightly open.†   (source)
  • More like the residues of the feelings of the people who have stayed here.†   (source)
  • The flow of blood seemed to ease; Snape wiped the residue from Malfoy's face and repeated his spell.†   (source)
  • "I'd also like to take a quick sweep of your hands for gun shot residue.†   (source)
  • It's residue from the microorganisms that ate the cloud.†   (source)
  • Not only that, the gun was erratic in the amount of residue it threw off!†   (source)
  • There's a school of thought that says it's not residue from the cloud that causes the sunsets.†   (source)
  • "The death knell of Spencer Lawton's precious gunshot-residue test.†   (source)
  • There was no gunpowder residue on Danny Hansford's hands.†   (source)
  • "We don't need the gunshot-residue test to prove that Jim Williams is guilty," he said.†   (source)
  • "We can spot them the gunshot-residue test," Lawton said.†   (source)
  • He's got two pet theories: the gunshot-residue theory and the coup de grace theory.†   (source)
  • I was no longer sensing the left-behind residue of a hollow, but the active presence of one.†   (source)
  • Doc touched the glistening powder residue on my hand, then held his fingers to his nose.†   (source)
  • We think of the face as the residue of emotion.†   (source)
  • I then checked my fingers to find that they were still covered with the rusty-colored tak residue.†   (source)
  • You can also tell whether a gun has ever been fired at all by examining residue within the barrel.†   (source)
  • Enough to where it couldn't be just some trace residue."†   (source)
  • That residue, even the tone, is well known to any soldier; it is his means of emphasis.†   (source)
  • And they had no idea why he would have tungsten carbide residue in his house.†   (source)
  • This must have been residue from when Figgis mined the stuff out of the rock.†   (source)
  • The Feeling was stronger here, but was still only residue.†   (source)
  • The drawers' contents had been turned over recently, the dust disturbed, but there was nothing of value there: old quills, out-of-date textbooks that bore evidence of being roughly handled, a recently smashed ink bottle, its sticky residue covering the contents of the drawer.†   (source)
  • For a long time phosphorus was obtained by vigorously heating the residue from evaporating urine in an earth retort the neck of which was submerged in water.†   (source)
  • By morning, the water would be boiled away, leaving only edible salt residue, a treasure beyond price.†   (source)
  • I listened to the sounds of muffled laughter, wondering if one of the voices was the Chairman's; and when I opened the door and saw him there at the head of the table, and Nobu with his back to me …. well, I was so captivated by the Chairman's smile—though it was really only the residue of laughter from a moment earlier—that I had to keep myself from smiling back at him.†   (source)
  • He couldn't stand the knowing-and-not-knowing, the residue of memory without the memory itself, the coming-apart every time he sat across the table from Claude.†   (source)
  • According to Dr. Neal D. Bernard, who heads the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, chicken manure may contain dangerous bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter, parasites such as tapeworms and Giardia lamblia, antibiotic residues, arsenic, and heavy metals.†   (source)
  • I spent most of my time licking the sticky residue on my elbows and between my fingers instead of eating it from the cone.†   (source)
  • It was here, he said, that the treachery of the defendant was surely most horrible—for he relied on the code among fishermen to assist one another in times of trouble and on the residue of friendship he knew remained from the youth he and Carl had passed together.†   (source)
  • They shook leaves of little plants and trees, rubbing the residue of water onto their faces and heads.†   (source)
  • Cars speed beneath us, coming from the west, from out of the towering light, and we watch them as if for a sign, as if they carry on their painted surfaces some residue of the sunset, a barely detectable luster or film of telltale dust.†   (source)
  • In any case, the most troublesome issue remained the total absence of gunshot residue on Danny Hansford's hand.†   (source)
  • In addition to the gunshot-residue problem, Seiler was becoming concerned about Williams's testimony.†   (source)
  • Detective Joseph Jordan testified that he had taken great care to preserve whatever residue had been on Hansford's hands.†   (source)
  • "In light of all that," Seiler asked, "are you surprised that there was no gunshot residue on Hansford's hand?"†   (source)
  • Seiler telephoned Dr. Stone one more time to ask if there was any way he could explain a zero reading of gunshot residue.†   (source)
  • You deal with these elements on a continuous basis in your specialty of gunshot-residue analysis, do you not?†   (source)
  • Burton," Cook began, "what, in your opinion, is the significance of a negative result for gunshot residue on an atomic-absorption test?"†   (source)
  • The most damning feature of the state's case was the negative test for gunshot residue on Danny's hands.†   (source)
  • It kills without leaving a trace—just a slight residue of fluoride but no more than you could attribute to the use of fluoride toothpaste.†   (source)
  • He claims the absence of gunshot residue on Danny's hands proves he didn't fire a gun, and he says Danny was lying on the floor when Jim shot him in the back.†   (source)
  • Seiler gleefully brandished a memo that showed how officials at the state crime lab had originally planned to conceal the results of the gunshot-residue tests if they did not help the prosecution.†   (source)
  • Dr. Stone said that because Hansford's hands had not been bagged before he was moved to the hospital, all traces of gunshot residue could easily have been wiped off.†   (source)
  • Get this: Stone found that when he held Danny's gun in a downward angle and fired it, as Danny would have, the gunshot residue was diminished by more than half.†   (source)
  • If gunshot residue could be detected, it would mean Hansford had fired his gun before Williams killed him; the absence of residue would mean he had not fired.†   (source)
  • Randall Riddell, the technician who performed the gunshot-residue tests at the state crime lab, testified he had found no gunshot residue at all on Danny's hands.†   (source)
  • Dr. Burton went on to say that it was he who conducted the study of gunshot-residue tests on suicides and found that fewer than 50 percent tested positive.†   (source)
  • Dr. Irving Stone, the forensic pathologist from Dallas, takes the stand and makes forceful arguments for the defense about the gunshot residue and other aspects of the shooting, as Seiler said he would.†   (source)
  • Seiler's expert witness, Dr. Irving Stone, had testified that the downward angle of the gun, plus the blood from Hansford's hand and the delay of twelve hours before the police swabbed for residue, would have diminished the residue on Hansford's hands by 70 percent, but no more.†   (source)
  • "Anytime there is a shooting," said Detective Jordan, "and you have reason to believe that a dead person has fired a weapon, paper bags are placed over the hands to prevent any foreign substance from getting on the hands and contaminating them, or any gunpowder residue—if there is any—from being accidentally wiped off."†   (source)
  • They wrapped Hansford in a blanket, lifted him onto a gurney, wheeled him into an ambulance, drove him out to the hospital, wheeled him into the emergency room, lifted him off the gurney, unwrapped him, and all that time his bare hands were flopping around and rubbing against his shirt, his jeans, the blanket—and rubbing off all that gunshot residue!†   (source)
  • In the world Michael-Mary Graham inhabited, her mild liberalism, a residue of her Bohemian youth, and her posture of sensitive lady poet passed for anarchy.†   (source)
  • Once the citadel was closed off, the elves would purge the city and the land thereabouts of the harmful residue that had settled upon it so that the area would again be safe to live in.†   (source)
  • One night, when I was on duty, the inmates got intoxicated, and sure enough the pipes tested positive for alcohol residue one day, although the water source tested perfectly normal.†   (source)
  • He would start awake from nightmares, without much memory of the dreams themselves but with a residue of dread that felt like something interfering with his breathing, that made him afraid to go back to sleep.†   (source)
  • At some point she realized she was putting down paint mainly to take it off, scrape it with a kitchen tool—she liked the veiny residue.†   (source)
  • Behind her, bright lights aided a full evidence response team that was dusting for more prints, gathering data on the carpet imprints, photographing the rain residue left by a pair of shoes that had come out of the weather earlier in the night, presumably the killer's.†   (source)
  • Up one flight, Barbara turns to Neddy, feeling a residue of fatigue from the weekend's low buzz of tension from not belonging here, from worrying that she may embarrass her son.†   (source)
  • I dove through closets, drawers, and cupboards, packing the residue of our life in Alpena, even though I did not know where we were going.†   (source)
  • Still, he shivered for a few minutes longer, from the cold and the residue of travel, and when he closed his eyes he thought of the two rivers meeting, converging, and the dark waters swirling.†   (source)
  • There was still the residue of the system and the halfhearted compliance to the system, which was in effect until the last week of school and the recognition ceremony.†   (source)
  • He approached and lowered himself and felt the sun on her body, the residue of deep heat transferred to his hands and mouth and the way their bodies exchanged a sense of the day and the land, all the heat and blowing dust heavy on their breath, tasted again, fingertipped and felt and smelled.†   (source)
  • The hill itself had helped contain the harmful residue from the explosion, although a large amount had still escaped through the entrance to the citadel, and most everyone who had been in or around Uru'baen needed healing with magic, else they would soonsicken and die.†   (source)
  • The residue of that long, sanctioned nightmare was still with me, and I wanted to tell these freshmen truthfully that no matter how much time had elapsed since that first day at the Institute, the one truth the system had taught me was this: A part of me would always be a plebe.†   (source)
  • Many times I saw people take a taste from a large ladle like spoon, allowing the residue from their mouths to drip back into the pot or simply dribble onto the floor.†   (source)
  • Three minutes later he pulled the drenched shirt slowly out of the gas tank, the fumes mingling with the rain, the residue of oil covering his hands.†   (source)
  • Even with the gunshot residue blackening her features, Patrick recognized her before he saw her name.†   (source)
  • …pages from memo pads and pocket calendars, they are throwing faded dollar bills, snapshots torn to pieces, ruffled paper swaddles for cupcakes, they are tearing up letters they've been carrying around for years pressed into their wallets, the residue of love affairs and college friendships, it is happy garbage now, the fans' intimate wish to be connected to the event, unendably, in the form of pocket litter, personal waste, a thing that carries a shadow identity—rolls of toilet tissue…†   (source)
  • Out over the trees he saw the residue of a jet contrail, the vapor losing its shape, beginning to spread and rib out, and he thought of the desert of course, the weapons range and flypaths and the way the condensation in the sky was the only sign of human endeavor as far as he could see, a city boy out camping, taking his soul struggle to the back-country, and the mach-2 booms came skyclapping down and the vapor formed an ice trail in the heavens.†   (source)
  • The residue of the entire trip left a good taste and it proved a pungent stimulant to class activity and awareness for many months.†   (source)
  • Takes a little time for the residue.†   (source)
  • But the fact of the matter is that at Auschwitz (and this she came gradually to confess to me that summer) she had been a victim, yes, but both victim and accomplice, accessory—however haphazard and ambiguous and uncalculating her design—to the mass slaughter whose sickening vaporous residue spiraled skyward from the chimneys of Birkenau whenever she peered out across the parched autumnal meadows from the windows of the mansard roof of the house of her captor, Rudolf Hoss.†   (source)
  • San Narciso at that moment lost (the loss pure, instant, spherical, the sound of a stainless orchestral chime held among the stars and struck lightly), gave up its residue of uniqueness for her; became a name again, was assumed back into the American continuity of crust and mantle.†   (source)
  • …enough to depress the value, if not Mucho himself, inside smelling hopelessly of children, supermarket booze, two, sometimes three generations of cigarette smokers, or only of dust—and when the cars were swept out you had to look at the actual residue of these lives, and there was no way of telling what things had been truly refused (when so little he supposed came by that out of fear most of it had to be taken and kept) and what had simply (perhaps tragically) been lost: clipped…†   (source)
  • The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated.†   (source)
  • What, then, is the residue of many human minds put together, unaired, unspaced, undifferentiated?†   (source)
  • It was the duty of Sergeant Jacobs to act as a human sieve-retaining the grosset matter and passing on the residue to his superior.†   (source)
  • His two hulking sisters in their Sunday dresses and his mother and her sister in calico and sunbonnets were already in it, sitting on and among the sorry residue of the dozen and more movings which even the boy could remember the battered stove, the broken beds and chairs, the clock inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which would not run, stopped at some fourteen minutes past two o'clock of a dead and forgotten day and time, which had been his mother's dowry.†   (source)
  • He thought, this is the residue of many people put together, of human bodies pressed into a mass, with no space to move, with no air to breathe.†   (source)
  • They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.†   (source)
  • At first, when they got among the rows of prostrate houses, they did not know where they were; the change was too sudden, from a busy city of two hundred and forty-five thousand that morning to a mere pattern of residue in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • But that any other eyes should see the residue of her thirty-three years, the deposit of each day's living mixed with something more secret than she had ever spoken or shown in the course of all those days was an agony.†   (source)
  • In this lantern one finds a glass spiral that contains only a residue of carbon dioxide gas.†   (source)
  • But since the facts which I should then have recalled would have been prompted only by an exercise of the will, by my intellectual memory, and since the pictures which that kind of memory shews us of the past preserve nothing of the past itself, I should never have had any wish to ponder over this residue of Combray.†   (source)
  • Then she heard her own name—"to my niece Lily Bart ten thousand dollars—" and after that the lawyer again lost himself in a coil of unintelligible periods, from which the concluding phrase flashed out with startling distinctness: "and the residue of my estate to my dear cousin and name-sake, Grace Julia Stepney."†   (source)
  • The residue all went to Sir Henry.†   (source)
  • Cyril would marry Miss Quested—he grew certain of it, all the unexplained residue of the Marabar contributing.†   (source)
  • When she took the paste out to bake it, she left smears of dough sticking to the sides of the measure, put the measure on the shelf behind the stove, and let this residue ferment.†   (source)
  • This settled the discussion for the time being, but there was a residue of opinion which was not satisfactory.†   (source)
  • The entire residue of the Blaine and O'Hara fortunes consisted of the place at Lake Geneva and approximately a half million dollars, invested now in fairly conservative six-per-cent holdings.†   (source)
  • And how much was the residue?†   (source)
  • Her awkwardness had all but passed, leaving, if anything, a quaint residue which was as pleasing as perfect grace.†   (source)
  • …members—is no longer that of youth, but a positive, almost a medical philosophy, the philosophy of men who, instead of fixing their aspirations upon external objects, endeavour to separate from the accumulation of the years already spent a definite residue of habits and passions which they can regard as characteristic and permanent, and with which they will deliberately arrange, before anything else, that the kind of existence which they choose to adopt shall not prove inharmonious.†   (source)
  • When administration had been granted, all the debts paid, and the residue of her husband's uncle's property had come into her hands, it was found that the sum waiting to be invested for her own and the child's benefit was little less than ten thousand pounds.†   (source)
  • There was still a residue of personal property as well as the land, but the whole was left to one person, and that person was—O possibilities!†   (source)
  • As we have to do with but one apartment in the old pile, the residue of it is left to the reader's fancy; and as pleases him, he may go through its gardens, baths, halls, and labyrinth of rooms to the pavilions on the roof, all furnished as became a house of fame in a city which was more nearly Milton's "gorgeous East" than any other in the world.†   (source)
  • …is a primitive thing, by demonstrating (what is also demonstrated by the cyclopean vestiges, the pyramids of Egypt, the gigantic Hindoo pagodas) that the greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius; the deposit left by a whole people; the heaps accumulated by centuries; the residue of successive evaporations of human society,—in a word, species of formations.†   (source)
  • The wholesale amount of Prunes and Prism which Mrs General infused into the family life, combined with the perpetual plunges made by Fanny into society, left but a very small residue of any natural deposit at the bottom of the mixture.†   (source)
  • As was usual, Arrowhead had received one half of his compensation previously to quitting the Mohawk; and his refraining to demand the residue was a proof of that conscientious consideration of mutual rights that quite as often distinguishes the morality of a savage as that of a Christian.†   (source)
  • The sum he had to give her was so large that he was obliged to ask for time; so large as to be a little fortune to Rebecca, who rapidly calculated that with this sum, and the sale of the residue of Rawdon's effects, and her pension as a widow should he fall, she would now be absolutely independent of the world, and might look her weeds steadily in the face.†   (source)
  • As for the residue of the Pequod's company, be it said, that at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are.†   (source)
  • Out of the small residue of her income which Amelia kept back for herself, the widow had need of all the thrift and care possible in order to enable her to keep her darling boy dressed in such a manner as became George Osborne's son, and to defray the expenses of the little school to which, after much misgiving and reluctance and many secret pangs and fears on her own part, she had been induced to send the lad.†   (source)
  • The residue of the property was to be devoted to the erection and endowment of almshouses for old men, to be called Featherstone's Alms-Houses, and to be built on a piece of land near Middlemarch already bought for the purpose by the testator, he wishing—so the document declared—to please God Almighty.†   (source)
  • …in from his tradesmen, with Dover's threatening hold on his furniture, and with nothing to depend on but slow dribbling payments from patients who must not be offended—for the handsome fees he had had from Freshitt Hall and Lowick Manor had been easily absorbed—nothing less than a thousand pounds would have freed him from actual embarrassment, and left a residue which, according to the favorite phrase of hopefulness in such circumstances, would have given him "time to look about him."†   (source)
  • Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income.†   (source)
  • Jars, boxes, and vials of all shapes and sizes were neatly stacked on the shelves above a counter where the late Beaton evidently had been in the habit of mixing medicines, judging from the residue of stains and a crusted mortar that rested there.†   (source)
  • The residue of your fortune, Go to my cave and tell me.†   (source)
  • I find myself growing faint, so I shall refer you to my will for my disposition of the residue.†   (source)
  • How far the unsacrificed residue will be endangered, is the question before us.†   (source)
  • If it should be a slight commotion in a small part of a State, the militia of the residue would be adequate to its suppression; and the national presumption is that they would be ready to do their duty.†   (source)
  • 10:4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: 10:5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: 10:6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy…†   (source)
  • With these considerations, and a sad heart, I went home that evening, and began to cast with myself how I should live, and in what manner to bestow myself, for the residue of my life.†   (source)
  • His grief too was a good deal aggravated by the unkind looks of Mr Allworthy; whence he concluded that Western had discovered the whole affair between him and Sophia; but as to Mr Blifil's story, he had not the least apprehension; for of much the greater part he was entirely innocent; and for the residue, as he had forgiven and forgotten it himself, so he suspected no remembrance on the other side.†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: THE residue of the argument against the provisions of the Constitution in respect to taxation is ingrafted upon the following clause.†   (source)
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