All 3 Uses of
remnant
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- In the room from which the conversation proceeded Bathsheba and her servant-companion, Liddy Smallbury, were to be discovered sitting upon the floor, and sorting a complication of papers, books, bottles, and rubbish spread out thereon—remnants from the household stores of the late occupier.†
Chpt 7-9
- Unlike and superior to either of those two typical remnants of mediaevalism, the old barn embodied practices which had suffered no mutilation at the hands of time.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Joseph Poorgrass was curled round in the fashion of a hedge-hog, apparently in attempts to present the least possible portion of his surface to the air; and behind him was dimly visible an unimportant remnant of William Smallbury.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(remnant) a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth