Everywhere that human genius opened up a way for itself, and had a career, the lastremnants of primeval truth were well-nigh banished.
Take the remnants of any fresh roasted meat and cut in thin slices.
The morning of the 23rd March found the remnants of the Division, less artillery, assembled about Achiet-le-Grand and Bihucourt.
Remnants of Division relieved at night--to Achiet and Logeast Wood.
I am now off for the North Country, for a snatch still at the smallremnants of Summer, and a little free air and sunshine.
It will dissolve theremnants of the barrack-hypnosis in the revolutionary enthusiasm of the people.
The abolition of the remnants of feudalism in agrarian relations will be supported by all the peasants who are now oppressed by the landlords.
Thus this reconciler of the two religions draws earnest attention to the fact that at certain religious feasts the robe of the Lama is rent in pieces out of respect, and the remnants highly valued.
But this is the reverse of a resemblance, for the garments of Christ were not rent in pieces out of respect, but out of derision; and the remnants were not highly valued except for what they would fetch in the rag shops.
There was much talk at this time, among the rebels, of Kirby Smith's holding out in the Southwest and being heavily reinforced by the scattered remnants of other armies.
When we reached Magnolia we found a camp of about forty badly wounded Federal prisoners there, who were the remnants of Steele's fight at Jenkins' Ferry.
Thick o'er the board the plenteous viands lay, The frugal remnants of the former day.
It was after nine when Lorrison, stumbling along a communication trench and beginning to think that he was lost, came upon the remnants of Pickersdyke's command.
The remnants of the detachments crouched behind the shields.
Strengthened by their contest with Frederick Barbarossa, recognized in their rights as belligerent powers, and left to their own guidance by the Empire, the cities were now free to prosecute their wars upon the remnants of feudalism.
Down tumbled the subaltern, killed leading his men, but the remnants of the party fell upon the gun crew.
In the time of the Roman domination of Greece, the remnants of the true Greek aristocracy were removed by the slave trade.
In all the continent of Europe the hour is at hand when there will remain only the inert and used up debris of our dead nations, pitiable remnants who will be the prey of unknown conquerors.
A tract in the northeastern corner, between Neosho or Grand river and the Missouri line, was set apart for the use of the Seneca and several other remnants of tribes removed from their original territories.
Some historians, for the vain pleasure of flattering by posthumous praises the pretended moderation of Napoleon, have almost reproached him for having suffered some remnants of the monarchy of the great Frederick to survive.
What, in fact, was the population of these remnants of the grand Hanseatic League of the Middle Ages?
Singly opposed to France, England could doubtless have done her much harm, especially by assailing the scattered remnants of her navy; but she could have done nothing against France on the Continent.
The French king believed that in a large town like Nancy, which had still some poor remnants of its once famous fortifications left, he would be safer.
Elsewhere in Goethe's great poem, Mephistopheles pits against the philosophers the popular theory of the rugged remnants of chaos in nature, and the obstacles before which man is powerless.
The Common Law, as it then prevailed in England, was in a great measure composed of some remnants of the old Saxon customs, joined to the feudal institutions brought in at the Norman Conquest.
These verses in all probability bore a near resemblance to the Golden Verses of Pythagoras,--to those of Phocylides, Orpheus, and other remnants of the most ancient Greek poets.
He destroyed the remnants of paganism that lingered on here, and by his preaching gained the rustic population to Christianity.
The good heart was showing through, still obscured as it was by the self-contained manner and the remnants of that suspicion with which every Briton is taught to regard the insinuating European.
Disillusionment, the collapse of hopes, and the chilly thaw that leaves only the dripping and fast-vanishing remnants of ideals; these are surely what she feels.
I looked and saw the remnants of a giant wheel which formerly had been turned by water, brought from the hills to feed the Fathers' lands.
But even these last remnants of the old custom are fast falling into disuse.
He had only a few senior officers remaining to rally the surviving defenders and organize cohesive units from the shattered remnants of the battalions that had fought to hold the heights above the Asan-Adelup beaches.
With the shattered remnants of the company they waited for nearly another 24 hours, until darting Marines on the top of the ridge showed Chonito had been taken from the rear.
Takashina ordered the shattered remnants of the regiment north to join the reserves he would need to defend the high ground around Fonte Ridge above the Asan-Adelup beachhead.
Napoleon had come too late, and when he had arrived in Fontainebleau with the remnants of the army defeated by Blucher, he learned there that Marmont had capitulated, and that the allies had already entered Paris, and all was lost.
Where could they take the only remnants which reminded them of the bright home they had had that morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "remnants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
