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  • You, on the other hand, Jason, may be the last great vestige of hope in our family.   (source)
    vestige = trace (little bit remaining)
  • All vestiges of the feudal system with its oppression of the poor were abolished.   (source)
    vestiges = traces of something that was previously there
  • Just like that, every vestige of imagined stability ... has come unraveled.   (source)
    vestige = remaining trace
  • The anatomical illusion that had seemed so real slowly disappeared and—like so much we no longer need but can't give up—became vestigial.   (source)
    vestigial = a trace of something that was previously there
  • And Charley, who still had vestiges of his Chicago grooming, waded in the water and became his old dirty self again.   (source)
    vestiges = remaining traces of something that was previously there
  • All vestige of gracious living! Gone completely!   (source)
    vestige = trace (little that remained from a time when there was more)
  • Of course there are some more recent outcroppings, ... some vestiges of Mesozoic shale, but these are comparatively new— perhaps two or three hundred million years.   (source)
    vestiges = traces (of something once there long ago)
  • this new and culminating atrocity had robbed him of all vestiges of reason or forethought.   (source)
    vestiges = traces
  • Walking this gnarled shore one summer afternoon, I blundered upon a matrix of faint stone rectangles embedded in the tundra: vestiges of the monks' ancient dwellings, hundreds of years older, even, than the Anasazi ruins in Davis Gulch.†   (source)
  • The sun is warm, there's the smell of damp earth and stirring roots and the sodden vestiges of last winter's discarded newspapers, blurred and illegible.†   (source)
  • The breeze carried with it a vestige of spring chill.†   (source)
  • Because the Bolsheviks, who were so intent upon recasting the future from a mold of their own making, would not rest until every last vestige of his Russia had been uprooted, shattered, or erased.†   (source)
  • It fell into my cup with a clink, and no doubt I will be considered to have abandoned the last vestiges of humanness by those who do not understand the degree of my suffering when I say that it sounded to my ears like the music of a five-rupee coin dropped into a beggar's cup.†   (source)
  • It was an ancient sundial of sorts, a vestige of the pagan temple that had once stood on this very spot.†   (source)
  • By dusk, the still summer air itself seemed to be quivering with anticipation, and as darkness spread like a curtain over the thousands of waiting wizards, the last vestiges of pretence disappeared: the Ministry seemed to have bowed to the inevitable and stopped fighting the signs of blatant magic now breaking out everywhere.†   (source)
  • I suspected that in Savannah I had stumbled on a rare vestige of the Old South.†   (source)
  • My aunt manifests only the most occasional vestige of her old interest in who my actual father is or was; last Christmas, in Sawyer Depot, she managed to get me alone for a second and she said, "Do you still not know?†   (source)
  • Soccer team rosters, citations at the end of journals, introductions at faculty meetings—always they seem to her some vestige of the prison lists that never contained her father's name.†   (source)
  • A vestige from when Culver Creek was a Christian boys' school, I figured the World Religions class, required of every junior and senior, might be an easy A. It was my only class all day where the desks weren't arranged either in a square or a circle, so, not wanting to seem eager, I sat down in the third row at 11:03.†   (source)
  • We do see vestigial signs of automobiles in our village, but they resemble the signs of life you would dig up in a graveyard if you were inclined to that pastime.†   (source)
  • And not merely our beloved branch of the Holy Tree, but all of its offshoots, vestiges and cankers.†   (source)
  • Mercifully, some vestiges of Mike's chivalry still survived; he came to stand beside me.†   (source)
  • The last vestige of feudal arrangements between maker and viewer.†   (source)
  • The room is completely rebuilt, no vestige of its original function, the window covered over, everything smooth and beige and smelling like a hospital.†   (source)
  • Jane clutched at her head, knocking out hairpins and destroying the last vestige of her attempt at a hairstyle.†   (source)
  • Any vestigial hope that her mother had fled the house and hidden somewhere disappeared.†   (source)
  • The following Tuesday, when Florentino Ariza was placing the rose in the vase, she examined her conscience and discovered to her joy that not a vestige of resentment was left over from the previous week.†   (source)
  • Not the slightest vestige of pity or mercy must you show them.†   (source)
  • The Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods was a vestige of that attempt.†   (source)
  • This forgotten vestige of the rapidly disappearing Old Florida, the one that existed before the arrival of waterfront condo towers, metered beach parking, and soaring real estate values, was in the news.†   (source)
  • We found not the slightest vestige of the girl.†   (source)
  • Into it, a priest deposited the hilt of a bizarre implement: a single-edged weapon, two and a half feet long, with a full tang, scale grips, a vestigial crossguard, and a broad, flat blade that widened and was scalloped near the end, a shape reminiscent of a dragon wing.†   (source)
  • He was different, she thought, from the men she'd met in her past, different from anyone she'd met before, and as the conversation rambled on, any vestiges of the nervousness she'd once felt began to slip away.†   (source)
  • At opposite ends of the field, there were rusty chain-link backstops, the vestiges of a long-defunct Little League baseball program.†   (source)
  • The automatic decoupler that was supposed to allow it to autorotate and give him a vestige of control had failed.†   (source)
  • At about the same time, Ira Hayes was shedding the vestiges of his Pima Indian boyhood at boot camp in San Diego.†   (source)
  • My thoughts drift off with the last vestiges of my energy and adrenaline, leaving me with the all too familiar feeling of nausea I've come to know well.†   (source)
  • What has died in this room tonight is the last vestige is me of what was human' "A shadow fell over her face; clear, as if the composure were rent like a veil.†   (source)
  • To frighten her, I smashed a porcelain jar that, I believe, was the last vestige of the splendid days of my great-grandfather, but she was unmoved.†   (source)
  • Pale blue walls suggested vast distances beyond the greenery, making the room feel larger than it was, the last vestige of a fashion for false vistas, more than five hundred years out of date.†   (source)
  • And then, as if to drop the last vestige of his directorial image, he placed his pipe on the table, reached into his pocket for a pack of cigarettes, popped one up to his mouth and snapped his lighter as he began to write on the legal pad.†   (source)
  • And thouigh his muscles still trembled to some deep untouchable vestige of fear that perhaps would always be there, he walked bravely and Tom knew that if the horse sensed no mirrored trace of it in Grace, then she might ride him too.†   (source)
  • It was midMarch, and there was a brisk, wet wind in the air as Rowan shook off the vestiges of winter.†   (source)
  • They were going to change all of us into men by reducing us to children again, by breaking down every single vestige of civilization and society that we had brought to protect and sustain us.†   (source)
  • She shakes the vestiges of the column from her body and glides through the air.†   (source)
  • "These ignorant bush people would be introduced to God and the vestiges of civilization, and turned into functional productive members of society," said one British diplomat.†   (source)
  • A twenty-three-year-old printer from Philadelphia, a private in the 71st Pennsylvania wounded while helping to repel Pickett's assault at Gettysburg, wrote to his father that any sacrifice was worth the cost, "for what is home with all its endearments, if we have not a country freed from every vestige of the anarchy, and the tyrannical and blood thirsty despotism which threatens on every side to overwhelm us?"†   (source)
  • But she had hoped, as she bent and laid her face against his, that there was some lingering vestige of him that would register her presence.†   (source)
  • …overheard, flinders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper's stained foliage, candlestubs lit to rotate in the air over him, prefiguring the cigarette he or a friend must fall asleep someday smoking, thus to end among the flaming, secret salts held all those years by the insatiable stuffing of a mattress that could keep vestiges of every nightmare sweat, helpless overflowing bladder, viciously, tearfully consummated wet dream, like the memory bank to a computer of the lost?†   (source)
  • And because I was not yet completely lost, perhaps because the Presbyterian ethic still exercised some vestigial hold on me, I would try again that night—would try with all my passion and might, to no avail.†   (source)
  • DUDARD: He's still retained a vestige of his old individuality.†   (source)
  • Of her former beauty not a vestige remained.†   (source)
  • Out front was a clean dirt yard with every vestige of grass patiently uprooted and the ground scarred in deep whorls from the strike of Liwie's broom.†   (source)
  • (Going upstairs) It's good to know you still have some vestige of patriotism.†   (source)
  • It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.†   (source)
  • But I saw no vestige of my white figures.   (source)
    vestige = remaining trace
  • Not a vestige of it was to be seen.   (source)
    vestige = a trace of something
  • This language-the mother tongue-is a vestige of an earlier phase of human social development.†   (source)
  • Art found that he could not bring forward the least vestige of professionalism.†   (source)
  • One vestige was the sight of Claude backing out of the barn doors and into a cold, white world.†   (source)
  • We must destroy every last vestige of —†   (source)
  • There was not a vestige of bluff in her eyes.†   (source)
  • The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable.†   (source)
  • Grace, tame as well, though with sneaky vestiges of wild.†   (source)
  • To Travis, those days seemed like the innocent vestiges of another era.†   (source)
  • 'My dear woman!' shouted-the ambassador, losing the last vestiges of control in his sudden anger.†   (source)
  • It was the last, ignominious vestige of faithful Barrabas.†   (source)
  • He swept away — abolished the last remains — vestiges — of the bad old days —feudal system.†   (source)
  • He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia-the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.†   (source)
  • Like Sirius, she retained vestiges of great good looks, but something — perhaps Azkaban — had taken most of her beauty.†   (source)
  • Beneath the Cloak he could feel the last vestiges of Polyjuice leaving him, his hands returning to their usual length and shape.†   (source)
  • Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve; For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.†   (source)
  • But there were vestiges of a less modern life, too—merchants selling sardines and cabbage by the roadside, crude homes of brick and mud.†   (source)
  • Of course, the Roman Pantheon had been converted to Christianity in 609 …. but this pantheon was never converted; vestiges of its true history still remained in plain view.†   (source)
  • She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.†   (source)
  • But when the Colonel opened the door, I caught the edge of her scent: wet dirt and grass and cigarette smoke, and beneath that the vestiges of vanilla-scented skin lotion.†   (source)
  • Problem: What/s this "belong to the cruciform" and "way of the cross" business if not a contorted vestige of the original colonists" religious belief?†   (source)
  • While he scanned the windows of my old house and wondered where the other members of my family were—whether my father's leg still made him hobble—I saw the final vestiges of the animals and the women taking leave of Mr. Harvey's house.†   (source)
  • And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.†   (source)
  • Although this physiological portal closes within a matter of months, it remains a symbolic vestige of the lost connection between the outer and inner worlds.†   (source)
  • They were done blowing coat for the spring, and he used the undercoat rake to draw out the last vestiges of downy gray beneath their guard coats.†   (source)
  • Vestiges remained in the arcane rituals of Christianity, in its god-eating rites of Holy Communion, its hierarchies of saints, angels, and demons, its chanting and incantation, its holy calendar's astrological underpinnings, its consecrated robes, and in its promise of everlasting life.†   (source)
  • Although modern culture had erased much of Venus's association with the male/female physical union, a sharp etymological eye could still spot a vestige of Venus's original meaning in the word "venereal."†   (source)
  • In his thoughts were vestiges of old skid roads and forgotten farm paths that bled into vales of ghost fern and hollows filled with skunk cabbage.†   (source)
  • The final vestiges of panic from the night before had been drained by the monotony of breaking trail and he felt light-headed and irritable and his stomach gnawed at him.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew the forefathers' "new Rome" had been renamed Washington early in her history, and yet vestiges of their original dream remained: the Tiber's waters still flowed into the Potomac; senators still convened beneath a replica of St. Peter's dome; and Vulcan and Minerva still watched over the Rotunda's long-extinguished flame.†   (source)
  • Then his father had touched him and Edgar had been filled with his father's memories but like some half-made vessel he'd been unable to capture them and they'd vanished, all but a few tattered vestiges.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he sent a force to Orthiad to remove the last vestiges of Urgals and seal the tunnels so no one can invade the dwarves by that route again.†   (source)
  • During their recent trip, it had occurred to him that—with the command of the ancient language bestowed by the name of names—he could remove from Elva the last vestiges of his blessing that had proved a curse.†   (source)
  • He was lost, astray in a strange house where nothing and no one now stirred in him the slightest vestige of affection.†   (source)
  • Frightened by the passion of that outburst, Amaranta Ursula was closing her fingers, contracting them like a shellfish until her wounded hand, free of all pain and any vestige of pity, was converted into a knot of emeralds and topazes and stony and unfeeling bones.†   (source)
  • A starburst of royal blue filled the flowers' throats, diffusing into the sable corolla like the vestiges of day into night.†   (source)
  • In a phrase, Parisians behind a steering wheel embody the last civilized vestiges of lethal abandon-possibly outdone by their counterparts in Rome or Athens.†   (source)
  • After all the serious practice, Ira Hayes still managed to recapture a vestige of his Pima youth on Camp Tarawa.†   (source)
  • Vestiges, feudal system and abolished.†   (source)
  • However, to the right of the gargantuan ornate living-room fireplace was an item that stood out like a decorator's nightmare: a The second contradiction to the decor, and undoubtedly an affront to the memory of the elegant Romanovs, was a heavyset man in a rumpled uniform, open at the neck and stained with vestiges of recent meals.†   (source)
  • So that when Colonel Aureliano Buendia invited him to start a mortal conflagration that would wipe out all vestiges of a regime of corruption and scandal backed by the foreign invader, Colonel Gerineldo Marquez could not hold back a shudder of compassion.†   (source)
  • His eyes grew moist with indignation, with angry impotence, and for the first time since his defeat it pained him not to have the strength of youth so that he could begin a bloody war that would wipe out the last vestiges of the Conservative regime.†   (source)
  • Just under the ridge of a pass I stopped for gasoline in a little put-together, do-it-yourself group of cabins, square boxes, each with a stoop, a door, and one window, and no vestige of a garden or gravel paths.†   (source)
  • He was more a Neanderthal vestige as he paraded down headquarters' corridors streaked with blood and mud, laughing and groaning, bearing himself with limping arrogance.†   (source)
  • And if your heart has human vestiges of courage and anger, which in a man are virtues, then you have fear of a dangerous beast, and since your heart has intelligence and inventiveness and the ability to conceal them, you live with terror.†   (source)
  • A little farther along I stopped at a small house, a section of war-surplus barracks, it looked, but painted white with yellow trim, and with the dying vestiges of a garden, frosted-down geraniums and a few clusters of chrysanthemums, little button things yellow and red-brown.†   (source)
  • However, their antennae seemed almost vestigial.†   (source)
  • But the deeper thoughts became vestigial as my feet once more started to ache from the cold.†   (source)
  • As for the real dogs, they never stood a chance: the wolvogs have simply killed and eaten all those who'd shown signs of vestigial domesticated status.†   (source)
  • In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person's activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card.†   (source)
  • One part bacchanal, one part tribal potlatch, one part vestigial New England supper, the entire affair hinged on the coronation of the Strawberry Princess—always a virginal Japanese maiden dressed in satin and dusted carefully across the face with rice powder—in an oddly solemn ceremony before the Island County Courthouse at sundown of the inaugural evening.†   (source)
  • Currently, it made its home at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where those who saw it had no reason to suspect that it was one of the last vestigial links to a time when the father of the country had watched over the U.S. Capitol as a god …. like Zeus watching over the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Some creatures had two fins, others four, while still others displayed vestigial limbs akin to a crab's that sprouted feebly from their stomachs and backs.†   (source)
  • Mutilated, dismembered, tortured bodies, ripped into grotesque shreds… I had clearly seen the vestigial feelers still attached to the truncated anterior section of a child.†   (source)
  • There is disagreement among the angels as to whether this is a result of something vestigial, or whether it is the result of the empathy they feel for the Living, so powerful it sometimes makes them weep.†   (source)
  • The room was black as pitch, silent, with the vestigial odor of mildew left from the days of noninhabitation.†   (source)
  • The conquered slave has a vestige of honor.†   (source)
  • And within the progressive societies themselves, every last vestige of the ancient human heritage of ritual, morality, and art is in full decay.†   (source)
  • Each retains a vestige of youthful freshness, although the game is beginning to get them and give them hard, worn expressions.†   (source)
  • He went on speaking and there was a quality in his voice, a sadness, a resignation, that increased her fear until every vestige of anger and disappointment was blotted out.†   (source)
  • It is the Epictetus who smiles when the last vestige of physical welfare is removed.†   (source)
  • [He rises and tries to recover some vestige of these attributes].†   (source)
  • Not a vestige of the Argonauts ever turned up; not a sound came out of the waste.†   (source)
  • Tell it quickly, nervously, and without a vestige of selfrespect.†   (source)
  • It was not afraid and not ashamed; the last vestige of the human taint had vanished.†   (source)
  • For a time I stood regarding these vestiges….†   (source)
  • And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency.†   (source)
  • Beside me were the charred vestiges of the boats and these five dead bodies.†   (source)
  • The mention of Levin's name seemed to deprive Kitty of the last vestige of self-control.†   (source)
  • In everything but courage. he was only the vestige of what he had once been.†   (source)
  • The only light in the room was the red glow from the fire—which lit his eyes like adverse railway signals, but left his downcast face in darkness—and the scanty vestiges of the day that came in through the open door.†   (source)
  • This is how I looked at it that morning—and even now I seem to see an undeniable vestige of truth in that exaggerated view of a common occurrence.†   (source)
  • Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.†   (source)
  • From that perspective, the lapses and eccentricities in his everyday appearance were apparently mere imperfections, or inept adaptations, were the vestiges or hints of a pure and true nature that could not be totally eradicated.†   (source)
  • But when he caught her to him, in a violence that was a terrible renunciation, she gave her embrace, her arms, her lips without the vestige of a lie, with all of womanliness and sweetness and love and passion.†   (source)
  • The sea was roaring some two hundred feet below her, and on looking all round she could no longer see any vestige of the tiny glimmer of red light.†   (source)
  • The Indian appeared to have a clear idea of where he wanted to go, though there was no vestige of a trail on those bare slopes.†   (source)
  • In the manner of one with long hours before him, he began his history; but after a few incoherent words he jumped to the conclusion, which was that "having ceased to believe in God Almighty, he had lost every vestige of morality, and had gone so far as to commit a theft."†   (source)
  • What you have got to do is to destroy the thing that is upstairs—to destroy it so that not a vestige of it will be left.†   (source)
  • Well, the man—Captain Smith they used to call him, and heaven only knows why, because he hadn't the shadow or vestige of a right to be called 'Captain' or any other title—this Captain Smith said, 'We'll make it hot for you if you don't stick by your friends, Major.'†   (source)
  • {2}It was volcanic in origin, and was now fringed on three sides by coral reefs; some fumaroles to the northward, and a hot spring, were the only vestiges of the forces that had long since originated it.†   (source)
  • He sprang round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of colour had been driven from his face.†   (source)
  • They were sitting at either end of the couch, looking at each other as if some question had been asked, or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone.†   (source)
  • The last brought back a message that Nastasia was surrounded by a whole army of dressmakers and maids, and was as happy and as busy as such a beauty should be on her wedding morning, and that there was not a vestige of yesterday's agitation remaining.†   (source)
  • As for the actual contents of the letter, they did not disturb him; for in not one of the charges which it formulated against Odette could he see the least vestige of fact.†   (source)
  • Marguerite had laid aside every vestige of nervousness; she was perfectly calm, and having returned the young man's elaborate salute, she began very calmly,— "Sir Andrew, I have no desire to waste valuable time in much talk.†   (source)
  • In those days, the eyes, protected by a third, blinking lid, were at the sides of the head— except for a third eye, of which the pineal gland was a vestige, that was able to patrol the upper air.†   (source)
  • They broke off at the least touch, and the waters that had stimulated their early growth carried their last vestiges out to sea.†   (source)
  • Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.†   (source)
  • Less so, and probably far more extensive, were the operations of those mediaeval practitioners who made dwarfs and beggar-cripples, show-monsters,—some vestiges of whose art still remain in the preliminary manipulation of the young mountebank or contortionist.†   (source)
  • The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books.†   (source)
  • In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon was a number of poor vestiges of the panic torrent that must have poured Londonward on the Sunday night after the fighting began.†   (source)
  • A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all!†   (source)
  • He looked anxiously round; not an article of furniture; not a vestige of anything, animate or inanimate; not even the position of the cupboards; answered Oliver's description!†   (source)
  • He had visited the houses of the poor in the various districts of London, and had found them destitute of the slightest vestige of a muffin, which there appeared too much reason to believe some of these indigent persons did not taste from year's end to year's end.†   (source)
  • On Monday morning I would speak to Joe about this change, I would lay aside this last vestige of reserve, I would tell him what I had in my thoughts (that Secondly, not yet arrived at), and why I had not decided to go out to Herbert, and then the change would be conquered for ever.†   (source)
  • …a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of Marat.†   (source)
  • As night advanced I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage, and after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, you are now to consider that only in the extreme, lower, backward sloping part of the front of the head, is there the slightest vestige of bone; and not till you get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the full cranial development.†   (source)
  • He was so deadly pale—which had not been the case when they went in together—that no vestige of colour was to be seen in his face.†   (source)
  • It was therefore necessary, before everything else, and at all risks, that I should cause all traces of the past to disappear—that I should destroy every material vestige; too much reality would always remain in my recollection.†   (source)
  • There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me, also, that in it might be shown men a ray of divinity, the present action of the soul of this world, clean from all vestige of tradition, and so the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love, conversing with that which he knows was always and always must be, because it really is now.†   (source)
  • A baker's cart had already rattled through the street, chasing away the latest vestige of night's sanctity with the jingle-jangle of its dissonant bells.†   (source)
  • Deeper it goes, and deeper into the wilderness, less plainly to be seen at every step; until some few miles hence the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man's tread.†   (source)
  • He was ill at ease until Dawson's Landing was behind him; then he said to himself, "All the detectives on earth couldn't trace me now; there's not a vestige of a clue left in the world; that homicide will take its place with the permanent mysteries, and people won't get done trying to guess out the secret of it for fifty years."†   (source)
  • The whole front of it was covered by a large scarlet bignonia and a native multiflora rose, which, entwisting and interlacing, left scarce a vestige of the rough logs to be seen.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXII The clouds and sunbeams o'er his eye, That once their shades and glories threw, Have left, in yonder silent sky, No vestige where they flew.†   (source)
  • The door opened, and Agnes, gliding in, without a vestige of colour in her face, put her arm round his neck, and steadily said, 'Papa, you are not well.†   (source)
  • Under the ancient monarchy the King was the sole author of the laws, and below the power of the sovereign certain vestiges of provincial institutions, half destroyed, were still distinguishable.†   (source)
  • I had met many deer, gliding through the woods, in my journey; but not the vestige of a man could I trace during my progress, nor from my elevated observatory.†   (source)
  • "What effect do you expect to have upon your father," her aunt demanded, "if you come plumping down, without a vestige of any sort of feeling, as if nothing in the world had happened?"†   (source)
  • A people which should leave no other vestige of its track than a few leaden pipes in the earth and a few iron rods upon its surface, might have been more the master of nature than the Romans.†   (source)
  • As she came walking in, looking very tired but as composed as ever, she observed that every vestige of the unfortunate fete had disappeared, except a suspicious pucker about the corners of Jo's mouth.†   (source)
  • Some vestiges of this ancient enclosure still remained in the last century; to-day, only the memory of it is left, and here and there a tradition, the Baudets or Baudoyer gate, "Porte Bagauda".†   (source)
  • She had left Thornfield Hall in the night; every research after her course had been vain: the country had been scoured far and wide; no vestige of information could be gathered respecting her.†   (source)
  • The lightning is not quicker than was the flame from the rifle of Hawkeye; the limbs of the victim trembled and contracted, the head fell to the bosom, and the body parted the foaming waters like lead, when the element closed above it, in its ceaseless velocity, and every vestige of the unhappy Huron was lost forever.†   (source)
  • He rode up a very quiet street, looking to the right and the left to see if he could catch any vestige of his beautiful Englishwoman, when from the ground floor of a pretty house, which, according to the fashion of the time, had no window toward the street, he saw a face peep out with which he thought he was acquainted.†   (source)
  • 'Not much,' I answered: not a morsel, I thought, surveying with regret the white complexion and slim frame of my companion, and his large languid eyes — his mother's eyes, save that, unless a morbid touchiness kindled them a moment, they had not a vestige of her sparkling spirit.†   (source)
  • Madame Homais was very fond of these small, heavy turban-shaped loaves, that are eaten in Lent with salt butter; a last vestige of Gothic food that goes back, perhaps, to the time of the Crusades, and with which the robust Normans gorged themselves of yore, fancying they saw on the table, in the light of the yellow torches, between tankards of hippocras and huge boars' heads, the heads of Saracens to be devoured.†   (source)
  • Though every vestige of her dress was burnt, as they told me, she still had something of her old ghastly bridal appearance; for, they had covered her to the throat with white cotton-wool, and as she lay with a white sheet loosely overlying that, the phantom air of something that had been and was changed was still upon her.†   (source)
  • The team slowly pursued its route, and the deserted Abiram now found himself deprived of the smallest vestige of hope.†   (source)
  • Nothing was more strict than the tie which united the vassal to the lord under the feudal system; at the present day the two men know not each other; the fear, the gratitude, and the affection which formerly connected them have vanished, and not a vestige of the tie remains.†   (source)
  • A very few moments after that, a young woman, with a slight girlish form, a sweet spare face in which there was no vestige of colour, and large widely opened patient eyes, rose from the seat where he had observed her sitting, and came to speak to him.†   (source)
  • Whatever the idle hopes he had suffered himself to entertain, whatever the pleasant visions which had sprung up in his mind and grouped themselves round the fair image of Madeline Bray, they were now dispelled, and not a vestige of their gaiety and brightness remained.†   (source)
  • Not but, in ancient States, the vestiges of servitude subsisted for some time after servitude itself was abolished.†   (source)
  • Albert seized them with a convulsive hand, tore them in pieces, and trembling lest the least vestige should escape and one day appear to confront him, he approached the wax-light, always kept burning for cigars, and burned every fragment.†   (source)
  • I confine myself to throwing out the observation, that, at the hour and place I have indicated, may be found such ruined vestiges as yet 'Remain, 'Of 'A 'Fallen Tower, 'WILKINS MICAWBER.†   (source)
  • There remains to-day but a very imperceptible vestige of the Place de Grève, such as it existed then; it consists in the charming little turret, which occupies the angle north of the Place, and which, already enshrouded in the ignoble plaster which fills with paste the delicate lines of its sculpture, would soon have disappeared, perhaps submerged by that flood of new houses which so rapidly devours all the ancient facades of Paris.†   (source)
  • Magua had so artfully blended the natural sympathies with the religious superstition of his auditors, that their minds, already prepared by custom to sacrifice a victim to the manes of their countrymen, lost every vestige of humanity in a wish for revenge.†   (source)
  • Samples of a people that had undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill, and certainly not in the fabulous mill which ground old people young, shivered at every corner, passed in and out at every doorway, looked from every window, fluttered in every vestige of a garment that the wind shook.†   (source)
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