How To Use Remnant In A Sentence

Yet this was all alive, in silver-gray, white, black, greens deep or bright and asparkle with remnant raindrops. The Boat of a Million Years
This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
In my own garden I have an old stone wall with remnants of whitewash that reflects the sunlight and heat in summer.
The crab nebula is the remnant from a supernova explosion 1054. High Energy Neutrinos from Cosmos
As possibly the sole surviving remnant of the Dragon empire it surely deserves some backing from the industry.

The researchers were therefore surprised to discover that foraminiferan tests sampled from the Challenger Deep contained calcareous components, including the dissolved remnants of coccoliths, the calcium carbonate plates of tiny algae called coccolithophores, and planktonic foraminiferan test fragments. Innovations-report
These islands are rugged, eroded remnants of great volcanic cones. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
ICE hasn't listed any native Filipino on its "gangbanger" watchlist or detention cells in the past few years, although insignificant remnants of Pinoy street gangs like Akrho and Bahala Na Gang sporadically surface in known Filipino communities here and in Carson, Glendale, Eagle Rock, San Fernando Valley, Rowland Heights, West Covina and Hawthorne. Undefined
The largest of these are presumably humeri, and there may be remnants of ulnae and radii as well. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
In addition to the principal units, deformed remnants of mafic dykes are abundant.
But the stories of this remnant student activism almost inevitably leave out an enormous upsurge in pro-Israel activities on these same campuses.
He found some disagreeable remnants — a watery stew, cold and sodden; a basin half-full of some kind of tinned soup; a chill suet pudding put away on a shelf. The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club
Mumma pulled up a map that showed where methane had been found and where the Mars Global Surveyor, a spacecraft that orbited Mars from 1997 to 2006, found the weak remnants of what had once been a strong magnetic field. First Contact
Thousands of sunseekers flocked to Britain's south coast on Sunday to enjoy the last remnants of summer.
The Prussian army invaded Baden, defeated the rebels, and forced the last remnants of the German revolution to capitulate in the fortress of Rastatt on 23 July.
That's what it was like to sniff Silences, from the sharp but already layered opening through the dark green first layer and on into the galbanum earth to the very smooth remnants of extreme dry down. Archive 2009-01-01
Feb. 2 North cluster remnants of the German surrender, the end of the Battle of Stalingrad.
The sky is filled with the remnants of the enormous cumulonimbus rain clouds that have been building up, emptying their contents and building up again all day.
Today the only remnant is Lance Corporal - historically it was a group of 5 riders. Cheeseburger Gothic » Research quickie.
Remnant patches were very similar in structure, tree composition, and mean diameter.
Even as he watched them he felt the last remnants of his love curdle and settle into thick hatred. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Persistent pupillary membrane is a condition of the eye involving remnants of a fetal membrane that persist as strands of tissue crossing the pupil.
Now, less than one percent remains as fragmented remnants scattered across 75,000 hectares.
Among the other notable churches of Orvieto are San Giovenale, which contains remnants of ancient frescoes, and San Andrea, which has a dodecagon tower; in 1220 Pierre d'Artois was consecrated King of Jerusalem by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
His wounded hand wrapped in towels, he is raising the vodka bottle to down its remnants, when "his gaze drifted over the top of the cabinet door and he saw the camera". The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
In the twinkle of an eye two powerful Quadi followed the dispensator, and, seizing Chilo by the remnant of his hair, tied his own rags around his neck and dragged him to the prison. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
Some have a forlorn and battered remnant of a house or two, but they are mostly mere grey areas of flattened stone. Times, Sunday Times
A new block of masonry was built up from the ground of such height and lordliness that the remnant of the old pile left standing became as a mere cup-bearer and culinary menial beside it. The Hand of Ethelberta
His vision of modernity has been to preside over the House in a vestigial remnant of the Speaker's traditional costume, so that he resembles a schoolmaster summoned abruptly from the lunch table.
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo
One of the primary indications that the RNA signatures are, in fact, remnants of an evolutionary saltation is their discrete character. A Disclaimer for Behe?
I could imagine the garlicked sausages to have been a remnant left in a mouldy cupboard by some impoverished hidalgo of a hundred years back. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
State public health laboratories can test for hantavirus by serology, immunochemistry, or virus remnant amplification.
Even remnants of last meals were preserved, such as the bellyful of shrimp fossilized inside one 8-centimeter-long larval salamander.
Today he was wearing what I sort of called a unisex wig that sort of had remnants or reminders of a bit of Austin Powers, maybe when Austin Powers gets to be around 70 years old, sort of a pageboy blondish blond wig, that ` s how I would best describe it. CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2007
Shetland has been almost totally denuded while at least some remnants of ancient woodland remain on Orkney, hidden in deep defiles and remoter islands.
In the widespread, though erroneous, use of the term in current popular literature, there is a remnant of the notion that metaphysical means ultraphysical: thus, "metaphysical healing" means healing by means of remedies which are not physical. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Selenite mostly formed in shallow marginal settings and was redeposited into a small remnant basin with a depocentre near the present synclinal axis.
Even as he watched them he felt the last remnants of his love curdle and settle into thick hatred. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Personal leadership must still be exercised on these most ferocious of battlefields as we face shattered remnants and irregulars.
He called together the remnants of his tribe and the might of the enemy was overturned.
Her face was almost imperceptible backed by the last remnants of the day's light. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
The word "gazpacho" is thought to derive from the early Roman word "caspa," meaning remnants or fragments. News & Politics
The fine straight lines radiating outward are remnants of the little furrows left by a seed drill or an air seeder.
When this was reported to the proprietor, he determined, if possible, to outroot this last remnant of disturbance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
Those steeds and elephants and human beings that formed the (unslain) remnant of the (Pandava) host uttered loud cries when thy son fell. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
The reduced remnants of the second pair of wings are known as halteres, and seem to function as stabilizers or as airspeed detectors.
The roof of things has fallen in - these paprika patches on the factory floor are corrugated remnants of protective tin.
Enlil agrees to grant the remnants of Mankind implements and seeds; agriculture begins in the highlands.
Her inspiring words were the only remnants other than my conjectural thoughts that I allowed to follow my every flight.
No life was visible - no birds chirruped in the matchstick trees, no children laughed among the remnants of the blaze.
* Chodin washes the pussybone remnants from under his fingernails* THE ‘WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE’ CLIP
(A fine, cream-colored bead around the rim of the vessel looks like it could be a remnant of whitewall.) New 'Vantage Point' show at American Indian museum shows off symbolic power
From here continue for another 1.5 km and you will see, en route, disused limekilns, the old pack horse bridge and remnants of the old charcoal burning sites all these feature are posted en route.
There appears to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off, or swallowed up in subterranean abysses. Chapter XXI
Bruce threw his infantry reserve into the battle, the arrows of the English archers wounded the men-at-arms of their own side, and the remnants of the leading line were tired and disheartened when the final impetus to their rout was given by the historic charge of the "gillies," some thousands of Scottish camp-followers who suddenly emerged from the woods, blowing horns, waving such weapons as they possessed, and holding aloft [v. 03 p. 0355] improvised banners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Check your fabric stash, or purchase remnants that can be cut and used for patches.
Carmen's head whipped around searching for a remnant of comfort before partially hiding beneath the safety of the flowery, pink bedspread.
Portions of these protected lands still support forests on remnant natural levees, similar to those studied by Penfound and Howard.
The coalfield represents an erosional remnant of the South Wales coal basin preserved within the Variscan fold belt.
These islands are rugged, eroded remnants of great volcanic cones. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
I would be happy to find some remnant scrub land locally, but it has mostly been cleared so as not to impede these galloping pets. Times, Sunday Times
A brief scan of the first page revealed things he hadn't been able to decipher from the distorted remnants he'd recovered from the wreck. LOST SUMMER
Build up world support using Ahmadinejad's oppressive and brutal response to the civilian protestors and dissidents, many of whom are remnants of a tyrant who preceded Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs there, the dreaded murderer, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ray Hanania: Don't Give Ahmadinejad the Excuses He Wants
This in turn surrounds less common remnants of Proterozoic sediments. Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
Axarus larvae almost always infest varved clay deposits that are remnants of Pleistocene glacial lakes.
Remnants of the hypersaline fluid were found in outgassed matrix glass Evidence for Fluid Saturation and Degassing
Shall I then shower you with wondrous remnants of scent from field and forest, and warm you ever so slowly, until you give up your magical elixir, as precious as life itself?
The flower-woman at the gate of her garden had now only autumnal blooms for sale in the vases which flanked the entrance; the windrows of the rowen, left steeping in the dews overnight, exhaled a faint fragrance; a poor remnant of the midsummer multitudes trailed itself along to the various cafes of the valley, its pink paper bags of bread rustling like sere foliage as it moved. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete
Finally, some observers report, bull terriers were commissioned to smooth out remnants of the otter hound cross that were considered unpresentable after the Airedale had entered the show ring in the 1860s.
Two glasses with the remnants of brandy sat on coasters on the coffee table.
Various remnants of the once vast colonial empires are still controlled by European states.
Once the Denivanian defenses were disabled, the slow, bulky troop transports would take their capitol, with escorts to defend from the remnants of the defense fleet.
The remnant ore inside the old stopes, pillars (low grade material not mined before) and tailings used as backfilling are being leached with mild acid solution.
Within habitats, forestry must ensure heterogeneity with the retention of snags, remnant trees, woody debris, and a more natural variety of tree species.
The batture lands are hydrologically connected to the Mississippi River, are flood-prone, and contain remnant habitat for “big river” species (e.g., pallid sturgeon) as well as river-front plant communities. Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)
THE REMNANTS OF THE skybridge swayed in the breeze, screeching where the metal rubbed against the side of the Moana tower of the Grand Hawaiian. Rogue Wave
The paintings began to take on more of the qualities of sculptures, featuring ‘the removal and chipping away or carving out of surfaces,’ remnants of subtractive gestures and large tracts of unfinished canvas.
Other quick-change options include crocheted doilies, printed tea towels, monogrammed napkins, or hemmed fabric remnants.
But, in the haze and visual undecidability of Lyons' St Albans facades, perhaps some remnants of both these lost ideals also hover.
Remnants of the Italian occupation during World War II exist in the capital, such as the use of ciao to say ‘good-bye.’
This is a remnant of the ancient Forest of Caledon that is reputed to have once stretched from the Beauly Firth to the Argyll coast. Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar
With the Soviet Union long past and the remnants of itsfirearms industry struggling, Izhmash, the factory in Izhevsk where Gen. Kalashnikov worked, is now partially privatized. The History of the Kalashnikov
The remnant stellar core in the centre is now sending out a flood of ultraviolet light into the surrounding gas.
We tell you that the beings you refer to as Sasquatch, are remnants of human-gorilla genetic engineered mutants, created for heavy labor, by the Aryans.
But enough so that I see the remnants of them being here. Everyday Violence
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical - of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy. ALL DISGRACED BY CORRUPTION
A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century.
His prey is the charred remnants of a campfire set along a trail in the heart of this tinder-dry wilderness area.
It was rediscovered in 2006, and now conservation efforts are in progress to save the tiny remnant population. Times, Sunday Times
Since dealers tend to sell remnants at a discount, it's well worth the extra effort.
Presenting Hav as a fascinating nexus of East and West, a teeming entrepôt of cross-breeding cultures, Ms. Morris describes the architecture with great relish: There are mosques from brief Arab rule during the Crusades, Russian onion-domed palaces, colonial remnants from the post-Napoleonic "Hav Britannica," and "the most cheerful of follies," a multistoried pagoda built by 15th-century Ming Dynasty traders. Visiting a Land Beyond Fodor's Reach
The Leakey family, who discovered the oldest hominid remains, in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, had a dig at the lake and were discovering more remnants of early man, which seemed appropriate in that atmosphere. One From The Hart
Cliff Wehrman has a new Dodge pickup and the remnants of a tan from a Mexican beach vacation. Democrats Face Skeptics in Rural Areas
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
The story delves into the lives of each teen as they are shaken from the remnants of their childhood and whisked into tumultuous lessons in adulthood and duty, as their respective countries prepare for war. Rabid Reads: "Leviathan" by Scott Westerfeld
Or was it part of a previously unknown Atlantic remnant population? Times, Sunday Times
We had to take out all the office remnants - the partitions and the fireproof ceiling.
So the coolest, dimmest dwarfs represent the remnants of the oldest stars.
She wiped away the last remnants of her tears.
The south slope is generally planar except where incised by glacial or fluvial valleys and is a remnant peneplain of late Cretaceous-early Tertiary age, which is well developed in western Mongolia and adjacent regions of China.
As it was, they cut away the remnants of the mizzen-lower-topsail with their sheath-knives, and they loosed the main-skysail out of its bolt-ropes. CHAPTER XLVI
Daughmer Savannah, Crawford County, Ohio is the largest and best preserved remnant of the unplowed, deep soil prairies and savannahs that were present at the easternmost extension of the Prairie Peninsula prior to European settlement.
Imagine the explaining I had to do when I brought David Milne home from school, only to find two sheep's brains on the table - remnants of my dad's lunch.
His attack to the south would bring him right across the remnants of C Troop, facing to the west.
Well, I shall be far more proud of it than of any old fossilized remnant of antediluvial times, I can assure you," was the quick retort. Sara, a Princess
These peripheral islands form the remnants of a single andesitic volcano ( 'Ancient Krakatau') which exploded and collapsed some 1,500 years ago leaving three remnant cones. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
Many were left with undesired remnants of the storm: spoiled milk, downed tree limbs and empty gas pumps.
Picking up an unburned stick Bridget poked into the glowing embers a remnant of clothing -- something white. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
Tenacious resistance was also demonstrated by the remnants of the First Army caught in the jaws of the German trap and knowing that the outcome was predestined.
There are other remnants of the French system as well: the cooks—stagiaires and permanent staff, all the way up to Ferran—wear blue aprons, tied around their necks, during mise en place which goes by its French name, just as the dishwashing station is called plonge. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
This vestigial remnant of Christianity turns protesters into propagandist missionaries.
Others, such as the remnant of a ring of trees around the summit, may be signs of 18th century landscape design.
Observation of these remnants, and early enthusiasm for erosion surfaces, probably caused many phantom surfaces to be reported, although bevelled cuestas are real.
GN is not a remnant, rather an antipode of Ptolemaic astrology, an independent multifaceted system, nor digestible by Ptolemaic descendants even under most favorable conditions today.
Any pesky remnants of feelings she used to have for him would just have to be dealt with later.
Although no one can say for certain whether the gnarled old tree is the very one cited in the New Testament -- the local Greek Orthodox church venerates the remnant of another ancient tree, for example -- experts who have examined it say it may very well date back to the time of Jesus. Zacchaeus' Tree Now A Top Tourist Destination
It is most likely that the two trees are escapes or remnants from cultivation.
I like to gather some greenery from the garden, infuse water with herbs, take a crystal (a remnant from my brush with the new age last century) and light a candle. Happy Solstice
The nearest grove of trees was more than a hundred yards away, beyond a small heap of stones that might have been the remnants of a tumbled chimneystack. Dragonfly in Amber
The only tissues that persistently expressed CAIX protein were coelomic epithelium (mesothelium) and its remnants, the epithelium of the stomach and biliary tree, glands and crypt cells of duodenum and small intestine, and the cells located at those sites previously identified as harboring adult stem cells in, for example, the skin and large intestine. BioMed Central - Latest articles
The frogs occupy a 16-ha stand of remnant native forest on Maud Island.
Orthoclase occurred as remnant phenocrysts in a groundmass of chloritic material resulting from alteration of iron-rich felsite cobbles.
For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems.
Shoo-shooed along, we hurry through the Palm Room a remnant of the old Conservatory? and down the curved drive on the south front of the White House and into the wet, unmown grass of the South Lawn where the press riser awaits; the white rope we are not to touch jumps up and down on its own accord. Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS]
--- What is the tane but a waefu 'bunch o' cauldrife professors and ministers, that sate bien and warm when the persecuted remnant were warstling wi 'hunger, and cauld, and fear of death, and danger of fire and sword upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, and that now creep out of their holes, like bluebottle flees in a blink of sunshine, to take the pu'pits and places of better folk The Heart of Mid-Lothian
It is still possible to see the wagon entrance to the quarry at the north-eastern corner and remnants of haulage roads to lime kilns.
I ran my finger over the star, absently taking in the circular shape of the town, its narrow streets a remnant of an older time, with cobblestones and horse-drawn carriages, candled lanterns and muddy gutters. Brush of Darkness
The only remnant of this custom is what is called the sasine, or a fee of certain estimated value, paid to the sheriff of the county, who gives possession to the vassals of the crown. Chapter LV
Remnants of teaching monasteries, stupas, temples and shrines present a haunting spectacle of lost grandeur and of a vanished civilisation - that of Buddhism in India.
For all anyone knows, the villagers may be the last surviving remnant of humanity. Times, Sunday Times
Will they elect another Democratic Senator only to see his term wasted by the dying remnants of Plantation and slave owners? Best of the Blogs
metanoia" within orthodox remnant will be allowed to remain faithful, as members in good standing, without persecution, within safe dioceses or even parishes. Stand Firm
Meanwhile Don Hugo de Moncada had escaped with a remnant of his forces to Iviza, in the Balearics, where he wintered, and where his men mutinied because he was unable to pay them. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
The chotts were the remnants of the Sea of Triton, claimed Roudaire, where ancient ships once rode at anchor.
The endemics include the highly threatened blue-eyed ground dove (Columbina cyanopis, CR), the Minas Gerais tyrannulet (Phylloscartes roquettei, CR), known only from three areas in the São Francisco valley in north and central Minas Gerais, and the Brasília tapaculo (Scytalopus novacapitalis), a passerine that is found only in a few populations in gallery forest remnants near Brasilia, and a few locations in Minas Gerais, including the Serra da Canastra National Park. Biological diversity in the Cerrado
The Germans have begun work on semi-synthetic analogs to certain ferulic-acid skeletal-remnant panaxosides, in a mutual agreement with an unnamed Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturer.
These are probably remnants of the "pigmy" pre-Dravidian or Negrito-Papuan element, which constituted the most ancient inhabitants of the island and who long ago were driven inland from the coveted coast. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
What's left over, the dry remnants of the cane minus its sugar content, is called bagasse. THE THORN BIRDS
Within this recess we would find the curved remnants of the angular (the tympanic) which actually form the tympanic annulus.
The retirement scheme is a toxic remnant of the past. Times, Sunday Times
The maneuverability of Opportunity is a factor as well, because remnant boulders from the impact may litter the rim.
Among the remnants are rare fragments of land life that survived the same period, including part of a conifer plant and the tooth of an archosaur reptile. Fossil hunters uncover complete 252m year-old underwater world
Contemporaries visiting France and Italy in the 1820s did not know which was the more shocking: the popery of the revived Roman Catholic Church or the secularism of the remnants of the revolution.
The salad was a sad little remnant of a 1980s salad made mostly of iceberg lettuce, thick chunks of onion and thicker chunks of cucumber.
There's more to the stream now, tall reeds with purple plumes one side, the frizzy remnants of fireweed the other, and oaks, especially a huge one by the path, probably as old as the Howards and in fine fettle.
In low-income countries with small remnant forest areas, for instance the Ivory Coast, population growth appears to increase the rate of deforestation.
A geologist told me awhile ago that this tor is a remnant of the glacial period. Janey Canuck in the West
A species of knitted golem stretched out on the floor, it extracts sense memories of his childhood home from the Urals folk custom of making carpets out of fabric remnants.
Church of the first-born who will share His millennial reign in glorified bodies; the spared remnant (Isa 10: 21) will only know the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He spent much time poking around bomb sites during the 1970s and came across some surprising remnants of old London. Times, Sunday Times
Boas and pythons still possess vestigial remnants of hind limbs, called "anal claws," which indicate that they are basal members of the ophidian clade.
A short wade out to sea, the bottom plates, remnants of the ship's engines and boiler lie collapsed upon themselves.
State public health laboratories can test for hantavirus by serology, immunochemistry, or virus remnant amplification.
A cup found bricked into the original kitchen hearth is both remnant and confirmation of an early custom.
The precipitous banks of red sandstone are richly clothed with vegetation, some of the trees ancient and very fine, especially the magnificent one called the capon tree, and the lofty king of the wood, remnants of the fine forests which at one time had covered the country. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
Off any beaten path in Newfoundland are such remnants, gone but not necessarily forgotten.
For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems.
How does it feel seeing these remnants of a dream? Times, Sunday Times
However despite everyone's best efforts, all our forest and remnant vegetation was wiped out.
So they were using all the remnants, refuse, and outcasts of our society.
In other words, Braun is suggesting that the form of wearing the diaconal stole that we are so familiar with today -- on an angle, worn from the left shoulder to the right hip -- is actually a result (and now the only remnant) of the tradition of the folded chasuble when the stole was wound up with the folded chasuble in that manner. Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble
During the Cretaceous, however, an ocean basin existed in this area, either as a remnant ocean that had escaped Jurassic obduction or as a small Cretaceous pull-apart basin.
We've got to remember that there's 60 million hectares of remnant vegetation left in Queensland in its current form at this stage, or more in fact, but 60 million hectares that's potentially developable.
A short wade out to sea, the bottom plates, remnants of the ship's engines and boiler lie collapsed upon themselves, home to kina and the occasional crayfish.
But they were also to swear to root out every remnant of the old religion.
REMNANT: I have a colleague that sets up a-- a what we call a rogue access point to -- to lure someone in. CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2009
Although the explosion originally escaped detection, its aftermath -- a hot, expanding gas cloud known as Cassiopeia A (Cas A, for short) -- is one of the best-studied supernova remnants. SpaceRef Top Stories
In these places are jagged cliffs falling almost vertical to the tide line, sea-scarred headlands defiantly forcing their way westwards, and fallen scree a remnant of aeons of erosion.
Daughmer Savannah, Crawford County, Ohio is the largest and best preserved remnant of the unplowed, deep soil prairies and savannahs that were present at the easternmost extension of the Prairie Peninsula prior to European settlement.
Another good reason to pick the chalicothere is that they were alive until at least the end of the Pleistocene and there could have been a remnant population hidden in a deep pocket somewhere.
The meal is rounded off with a chocolate yule log and the remnants of the 13 desserts. Times, Sunday Times
Some time early next year, the last remnants of this year's perennials and grasses will cease to earn their keep. Times, Sunday Times
A man, in half-bared arms dotted about the wrists with remnants of what they call gurry-sores, stood at the water's edge, waiting to lend a hand. Sweetapple Cove
It is a well-known fact, that there exist between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, what are called planetoids, about 500 in number, which are supposed to be the remnants of a broken or shattered world. Aether and Gravitation
Modern excavations at Giza have found remnants of copper and even the hearths or kilns used to process the metal into tools.
The shattered remnants of other vessels dotted the walls and floor of the tunnel, but she figured the gunrunners had scavenged the majority of the wreckage.
Facing them, on the South Walk cloister wall, were the remnants of the night stairs from the now vanished dorter. Excerpt: The 6th Lamentation by William Brodrick
Now whether it's a vestigial remnant of a day past is something that I question very much.
In my own garden I have an old stone wall with remnants of whitewash that reflects the sunlight and heat in summer.
Once upon a time, the last remnants of life–radiation-resistant spores and hyperthermophilic single-celled archaea–gave up their long evolutionary battle against the red sun that grew in their sky. This is My Story. | Mind on Fire
WO Osborne said the area is still thought to contain the remnants of a protective minefield and ships are forbidden from anchoring in the bay.
Put a different way, had NATO assaulted Tora Bora and eliminated the al-Qa'ida force, to include bin Laden and his inner circle, along with the remnants of the Taliban forces, NATO losses would have been miniscule as comparedto the losses the region has suffered over the past seven years of endless warbecause those forces were allowed to escape. This didn't have to happen
Until then, we earthlings can continue to look for microscopic visitors, or their fossil remnants, that might reside in meteorites from Mars or from other worlds.
All eyes turn to this shabby remnant, but they remain immovable, with the leaden expression belonging to the victims of the Confederate lexicon, that seems to say, unaccused, '_I am not ashamed. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The amount of remaining vegetation also is variable depending on the amount of remnant bushland within reserves, state forests, or leasehold land.
A fall of snow in late October covered the remnants of uncut corn and effectively terminated harvesting.
I chose a moderately low-cut black tank top with torn sleeves, remnants from when it had been a T-shirt in a past life.
The remnant of the Table fought alike.
As possibly the sole surviving remnant of the Dragon empire it surely deserves some backing from the industry.
More to the point, the remnants of his ill-starred crew had struggled across a permanently frozen strait and died in a region, I knew from my research, where no navigable passage existed.
With so many remnants of colonial policies surviving in India, what could have been just a curious insight thus becomes sadly relevant.
In a better possible world, houses of worship would never be welcome, but only tolerated as remnants of humanity's nonage. Andrew Levine: Of Mosques and Marriage
Into the "inscape" supplied by the remnants of the old society? John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Willie made me beautiful dresses, even if she used leftover pieces and remnants.
Very aerobic-biassed, I guess, but at least they are all calorie burners, so they would have got rid of the remnants of the cake we ate at Trevor and Jon's this evening.
The sky had become a dark shade of indigo, tinged with the remnants of deep magenta.
Add some batting, wadding or any padding that you can find then cover this with a fabric remnant before hot gluing cones, fruits or any other harvest decorations and a large bow to the wreath.
A small cross-incision was made with a scalpel on the stylar remnant, which is the end link point of the dorsal vascular bundles.
The problem with something of this bredth is, I'd expect to see more remnants of it. A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE

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