All 3 Uses of
remnant
in
Lonesome Dove
- Once the blue pigs and the remnants of the rattlesnake had been sashed away I devote a few sentences to Augustus's partner, Captain Woodrow Call, who is in a nearby corral, trying to break an unruly young mare called the Hell Bitch, who catches him slightly off guard and takes a bite out of his shoulder.†
Chpt Pref.remnants = small amounts that remains after the rest is gone
- Soon the whites would come, of course, but what he was seeing was a moment between, not the plains as they had been, or as they would be, but a moment of true emptiness, with thousands of miles of grass resting unused, occupied only by remnants—of the buffalo, the Indians, the hunters.†
Chpt 54-55
- Augustus thought they were crazed remnants, mostly, like the old mountain man who worked night and day gathering bones to no purpose.†
Chpt 54-55 *
Definition:
a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth