All 5 Uses of
vestige
in
The Time Machine
- And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency.†
Chpt 5
- But I saw no vestige of my white figures.
Chpt 5 *vestige = remaining trace
- Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.†
Chpt 8
- 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!†
Chpt 8
- The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(vestige) a remaining trace (little bit of something) that was previously abundanteditor's notes: In biology, vestige (especially in the form vestigial) references a part of the body that is underdeveloped and no longer used, but which formally was an important body part. As in: Darwin believed vestigial organs are evidence of evolution.