All 3 Uses of
residue
in
Middlemarch
- 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!†
Chpt 4 *
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- …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."†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(residue) what remains after the main part is gone