All 50 Uses of
remnant
in
Atlas Shrugged
- There was still a remnant of sunset light in the sky,
Chpt 1.3 *remnant = last bit
- She picked up a glass and swallowed the stale remnant of a drink.†
Chpt 1.4
- The remnant of violence, the emotion rising as a thin trembling within her, was not for the man she was going to see; it was a cry of protest against a sacrilege-against the destruction of what had been greatness.†
Chpt 1.5
- Yet it was still the remnant of Halley's melody that gave it form; it was the melody that supported it like a spinal cord.†
Chpt 1.6
- It had been an office building, long ago; she saw the sky through the naked steel skeleton and the angular remnants of the bricks that had crumbled.†
Chpt 1.7
- A wall of rock shot upward in their path, filling the windshield, darkening the cab, so close that it seemed as if the remnant of time could not let them escape it.†
Chpt 1.8
- It was late and the lights were like the last sparks left glittering on the black remnants of a bonfire.†
Chpt 1.9
- The sea rolled softly, in sprays of yellow and orange, with a few red jets shooting up on the hillsides, with pools of remnant green in the hollows, under a pure blue sky.†
Chpt 1.9
- They had walked through the ledges of an empty pit, with the remnants of a crane like a skeleton bending above them against the sky, and someone's rusted lunchbox clattering away from under their feet.†
Chpt 1.9
- The corpse they saw in the weeds by the roadside was a rusty cylinder with bits of glass-the remnant of a gas-station pump.†
Chpt 1.9
- The room looked as if it had been an experimental laboratory-if she was right in judging the purpose of the torn remnants she saw on the walls: a great many electrical outlets, bits of heavy cable, lead conduits, glass tubing, built-in cabinets without shelves or doors.†
Chpt 1.9
- There were also remnants of things which had not been brought here by the owner of that room: popcorn wrappers, a whiskey bottle, a confession magazine.†
Chpt 1.9
- It was the broken remnant of the model of a motor.†
Chpt 1.9
- It was a thin sheaf of typewritten pages clamped together-the remnant of a manuscript.†
Chpt 1.9
- He sat looking at the remnant, intent on some thought of his own; it did not seem to be a happy thought.†
Chpt 1.9
- He rose abruptly, but stopped to glance down at the broken remnant and said, with a chuckle that was not gay, "There was the motor for the John Galt Line."†
Chpt 1.9
- The popcorn wrappers and the whiskey bottle testified to the kind of invading hordes that had rolled through the room, like waves washing the remnants of destruction away to unknown bottoms.†
Chpt 1.9
- There was a remnant of light on the hill, but a blue haze was moving in upon the valleys, and the red and gold of the leaves was spreading to the sky in strips of sunset.†
Chpt 1.9
- Dagny placed the remnant of the motor into a vault in one of the tunnels; the vault had once contained an emergency electric generator, which had been removed long ago.†
Chpt 1.10
- She looked at the object before her, a glass case containing the remnant of the motor.†
Chpt 1.10
- I found a broken remnant of it in the ruins of the Twentieth Century factory.†
Chpt 1.10
- She held the small remnant to the light of the dashboard, looking for the name of the brand.†
Chpt 1.10
- Twisted remnants of leaves now hung on the branches beyond the train's roof line, and the passengers wore furs and mufflers, as they climbed aboard.†
Chpt 1.10
- The only remnant of her personal quest was the stub of the cigarette with the dollar sign.†
Chpt 2.1
- The first one, after studying the remnants of the motor and of the manuscript, had declared, in the tone of a drill sergeant, that the thing could not work, had never worked and he would prove that no. such motor could ever be made to work.†
Chpt 2.1
- She handed him photographs of the motor and the remnant of the manuscript.†
Chpt 2.1
- The remnant of a smile stayed on her face as she moved through the crowd, a fluid smile that ran softly into the look of tension and boredom worn by all the faces around her.†
Chpt 2.2
- There were remnants of a breakfast on the table.†
Chpt 2.3
- There was neither thought nor feeling left in him, nothing but a sense that merged the remnants of both, the sense of congratulation upon the greatest victory he had ever demanded of himself: that Lillian had walked out of the hotel suite alive.†
Chpt 2.3
- The two words seemed to fall with a singular emphasis; they were pronounced very quietly, almost cautiously, with no remnant of a smile on Francisco's face.†
Chpt 2.3
- And the sole chain still holding him was only a last remnant of pity.†
Chpt 2.4
- We must all pull together as a team to carry our railroad through this desperate emergency," A gray-haired man of patrician bearing, who had remained silent throughout the session, with a look of the quietly bitter knowledge that the entire performance was futile, glanced at Dagny in a way which would have been sympathy had he still felt a remnant of hope.†
Chpt 2.5
- From the height of the room, the city looked like a flattened remnant, with but a few rare, lonely streaks of lighted glass still rising through the darkness to the sky.†
Chpt 2.5
- It was right there, on the construction site by the river, in the old railway coach where he lived, with the door open to the view of the blackened ruin, with the wooden remnants still smoking over the twisted steel.†
Chpt 2.5
- There were no signal lights, no switches, no telephone wires, nothing but a long band of wooden strips left on the ground-a chain of ties without rail, like the remnant of a spine-and, as its lonely guardian, at an abandoned grade crossing, a pole with slanted arms saying: "Stop.†
Chpt 2.5
- There was, even within the four men who had listened, a remnant of human dignity, which made them sit still and feel sick for the length of one minute.†
Chpt 2.6
- There was nothing but the strong summer starlight to guide him, as he walked, but he could distinguish the highway and the remnant of a stone fence ahead, at the corner of a country crossroad.†
Chpt 2.7
- He could not accept it; he could not lose whatever remnant of his vision he still retained.†
Chpt 2.7
- You speak some remnant of a human language, so in the name of that, I'll tell you that I have no hope left, but I have the knowledge that when the end comes, I will have lived by my own standards, even while I was the only one to whom they remained valid.†
Chpt 2.7
- But he shook his head: this was only an old thought, last year's thought, a remnant of the time when he had trusted them, too.†
Chpt 2.7
- She thought that one could build a hydroelectric plant, just large enough to supply the power for her cabin and for the town of Woodstock-Woodstock could be made to be productive-those wild apple trees she saw in such unusual numbers among the dense growth on the hillsides, were the remnants of orchards-suppose one were to reclaim them, then build a small spur to the nearest railroad-oh, stop it!†
Chpt 2.8
- Should she tell him to stop and to let the remnant of the motor vanish in rust on some such junk pile as the one where she had found it?†
Chpt 2.8
- There was still a remnant of daylight beyond the windows.†
Chpt 2.9
- He glanced down at the table, and he noticed the butts of many cigarettes among the remnants of food on the worker's plate.†
Chpt 2.9
- You remember, the motor I told you about, the remnant that she found…… Daniels?†
Chpt 2.9
- …had once been free to achieve-she saw the homes built in scattered privacy, the small shops, the wide streets with electric lighting, like a few luminous strokes criss-crossed on the black sheet of the wastelands-she saw the ghosts between, the remnants of towns, the skeletons of factories with crumbling smokestacks, the corpses of shops with broken panes, the slanting poles with shreds of wire-she saw a sudden blaze, the rare sight of a gas station, a glittering white island of glass…†
Chpt 2.10
- …thought that the magnificence of a world where men could afford the time and the effortless concern for such things as starched napkins and tinkling ice cubes, offered to travelers along with their meals for the price of a few dollars, was a remnant of the age when the sustenance of one's life had not been made a crime and a meal had not been a matter of running a race with death-a remnant which was soon to vanish, like the white filling station on the edge of the weeds of the jungle.†
Chpt 2.10
- …thought that the magnificence of a world where men could afford the time and the effortless concern for such things as starched napkins and tinkling ice cubes, offered to travelers along with their meals for the price of a few dollars, was a remnant of the age when the sustenance of one's life had not been made a crime and a meal had not been a matter of running a race with death-a remnant which was soon to vanish, like the white filling station on the edge of the weeds of the jungle.†
Chpt 2.10
- There were two planes on the edge of the airfield: one, the half charred remnant of a wreck, not worth salvaging for scrap-the other, a Dwight Sanders monoplane, brand-new, the kind of ship that men were pleading for, in vain, all over the country.†
Chpt 2.10
- Like remnants of broken jaws, strings of granite dentures stood between her ship and his; she could not tell what lay at the bottom of his spiral motion.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(remnant) a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth