Both Uses of
remnant
in
Bleak House
- The policeman considers him an imbecile civilian, a remnant of the barbarous watchmen times, but gives him admission as something that must be borne with until government shall abolish him.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- He might as well have been born with a yard and a half of it, and a remnant over.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(remnant) a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth