How To Use Vestige In A Sentence

No part of the lunar globe became visible in relief against circumfluous solar radiance on any of the plates exposed at Grenada; and what vestiges of "structure" there were, came out almost better _upon_ the moon than _beside_ her, thus stamping themselves at once as of atmospheric origin. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
The last vestiges of doubt were erased in little more than a nanosecond. Times, Sunday Times
Doubtless the series will spark a rush of transsexuality-centred reality shows that, given the ready and infinite corruptibility of the form, will lose within a year all vestige of the charm of the original and become as mainstream, dreary and degrading to everyone concerned as its other reality brethren. TV review: My Transsexual Summer; Sorority Girls; and Imagine … Simon and Garfunkel: the Harmony Game
At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible. Undefined
In our frantic effort to preserve the last vestiges of slavery and mediaevalism we not only set our faces against such improvements, but we seek to use education and the power of the state to train the servants who do not naturally appear. DARKWATER

Some vestiges of arranged marriage continue and many couples rely on matchmakers to find mates.
For now there are just the vestiges of the past—triumphs and disappointments alike—and the brightness of things to come.
Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
if your slave may be so honoured as to speak in your presence, a vizier should be a person of great tact; he should be able to draw the line as nicely as I do when I shave your sublime head, leaving not a vestige of the hair, yet entering not upon the skin. The Pacha of Many Tales
In addition, the recent demarcation of municipal boundaries represents an attempt to break up racially segregated lands that are vestiges of apartheid's Group Areas Act.
These upright stones are the vestiges of some ancient religion.
Finally, you have assemblages of lines that do not draw anything, even cubes or triangles; and we are assured that there is now a newest school of all, called Orphism, which, finding still some vestiges of intelligibility in any assemblage of lines, reduces everything to shapeless blotches. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects
But Lord Hoyle - who for many years represented Nelson and Colne and whose son Lindsay sits for Chorley in the Commons - said it was essential to get rid of the last vestiges of hereditary patronage.
Those who saw him then say he seemed to shrink into himself and lose what ever vestige he had till then retained.
The totalitarians spoke a populist language in countries like the United States, but where they achieved power every vestige of democracy was wiped out.
Interestingly everyone agrees that the one thing keeping unhappy couples together is not the last vestige of love, but money.
This swelling border, added last, embraces all but the lower left corner of the centralized image, canceling out the lingering sense of rational space of "Sketch 1" and pushing the vestiges of the troika, St. George and a mountainous landscape firmly toward abstractness. Complementary Abstractionists
Squids on earth still have a vestige of a shell inside their mantles.
You can find traditional models or some very interesting solutions like the splendid "vestige" model shown in the picture on the right you can buy it at less than 300$...35% less than normal retail price! Archive 2008-10-01
She tumbled out of bed, the last vestiges of the dream slipping from her mind.
People destroyed all remaining vestiges of humour.
A human being has the vestige of a tail.
This book is written from a Protestant standpoint, but by a man who was a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever became a Protestant, and we feel absolutely certain that the Catholic world will endeavor to throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every vestige of fear from that standpoint and have made up our mind that we are no better than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were burned at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the awful deeds of that _awful creed_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
The ‘splint bones,’ far from being useless vestiges of evolution, play an important role in the horse's leg.
Curtains draped along the glass frontage keep out the vestiges of daylight, a pre-requisite of all good clubs.
Like all myths, there is a vestige of truth in the caricature.
The top of the mizzen was the first to disappear, then followed the main-top; and soon, of what had been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be seen. The Survivors of the Chancellor
The new law removed the last vestiges of royal power.
These old buildings are the last vestiges of a colonial past.
I have used the word verdure, but it is really a misnomer, for although the prevailing tint of the foliage was a dark green, the entire forest was streaked like a rainbow with innumerable flowers, and the breeze which blew from it was laden with the most delightful perfume, Evidently it was all a howling wilderness, for we could not detect the slightest vestige of human dwellings or cultivation. A Trip to Venus
The top of the mizen was the first to disappear, then followed the main-top; and soon, of what had been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be seen. The Survivors of the Chancellor
Positivist psychologists may see a shift to the idealist ontology implied by social constructionism as a backward step, a vestige of old debates now resolved in favour of the positivist version of realism.
Men I have said remove the pubes by shaving, and pluck the hair of the arm-pits, one of the vestiges of pre-Adamite man. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Now I am left wondering what course of study I should undertake next in order to eradicate any remaining vestiges of personality.
His report offered not a vestige of comfort.
Alone, in a sequestered place, surrounded by vestiges of old time and decay, it rather has a tendency to call a shudder into being. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Loyalty oaths" are a foolish vestige of another time and who but TeaKlux morons that overuse and abuse the term "patriot" would even THINK of signing one ?? The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
We represent the last vestige of what made this nation great — hard work.
A vestige of a long-ago past, the n-word—fully spelled out—still lingers in environmental conservation laws classifying bodies of water. Offensive Environment
The upright clump of leaves observed on 11 December 1987 was a vestige of the future upright, leafy stem with very short internodes between the leaves.
I never thought I would be involed in politics, I'd fideidefensor #politics "Nadine Dorries sueing Damien McBride over smears" I hope she bankrupts him even politicians should have some vestige of the truth Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Vestiges of a street plan can sometimes be seen on ploughed land north-east of the amphitheatre.
This is unlikely to alter the eventual outcome, but might ensure that it is achieved with a vestige of dignity.
The sort of people the service attracted and needed were determined to hang on to a vestige of individuality when they put on air-force blue. Times, Sunday Times
Someday, we hope, the idea of a diversity program will be seen as a quaint and unnecessary vestige because we will have become the color-blind society of Martin Luther King's famous dream.
Then, when the leading tongues of the guns had flashed out, and human life, even the life of dogs, had yielded to the demand of her cause, the last vestige of her dreaming had been swept away, and she told herself it was murder, _murder at her bidding_! The Man in the Twilight
One more twist is required to help this far-fetched plot attain a vestige of credibility.
Park's "Chronos" features an ostinato bass line that allows Redman to explore vestiges of Middle Eastern music on the melody. Ralph A. Miriello: Review of the 2011 Jazz Festival at Beautiful Caramoor, Katonah, NY
But beyond this lie ten miles of pahoehoe, the lava-flows of ages, with only now and then the vestige of a trail. The Hawaiian Archipelago
The Old Northwest is a name which tells of the vestiges which the march of settlement across the American continent has left behind it. The Frontier in American History
Results: The chief presentation of branchiogenic carcinoma was isolated mass existed in the branchial vestige, sometime recurrent nerve involved.
These old buildings are the last vestiges of a colonial past.
Of other furniture there did not seem to be a vestige in the place, save such as pertained to the necessities of eating and sleeping. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea
That chiseling sound you hear in the world next door is the slow whittling away of the last vestiges of the logocentric tradition.
But her last vestige of power had departed, her most loyal followers had been induced to abandon her cause after the defection of the kalif himself, and Sobeyah, who had been the most powerful of all the Moorish sultanas of Cordova, was now forced in humiliation to withdraw from active participation in worldly affairs and to spend the few remaining years of her life in strict seclusion in a lonely cloister. Women of the Romance Countries
In the middle of the flo or was a large, old-fashioned trough with vestiges of some swill in it. IN LOVE AND WAR
They receive these signals through a specialized organ in the nose, vestiges of which still exist in humans.
To be envied, is the grand and sole aim of vulgar vanity; to be filled with good things is that of sensuality; for Johnson perhaps no man living _envied_ poor Bozzy; and of good things (except himself paid for them) there was no vestige in that acquaintanceship. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
Her pondering presumes a regal power, a lingering vestige of an era when sovereignty resided not in the people but in the monarch.
Much to her obvious delight, I'd tongued away the last vestiges of the toast before I dared answer. THE MANANA MAN
Israel will have to be careful not to give the impression that it is hampering Obama’s foreign policy, like a kind of vestige from the Bush period. 18 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
Cut and bleeding, I finally managed to free myself from the thorn prison only to discover the last vestiges of sunlight disappearing over the horizon.
The only caravansera we had seen was left some hours behind us, not a vestige of a town or even cottage was within sight or hope, and this “city of the dead” appeared to be the sole refuge for my unfortunate friend, who seemed on the verge of becoming the last of its inhabitants. Life of Lord Byron
Why are our councillors seemingly content to sit back and watch the last remaining vestiges of ‘old Bradford’ destroyed?
By then, the originally beautiful, rich-coloured chestnuts are dried out, mildewed vestiges, fit only for stuffing turkeys.
Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
These upright stones are the vestiges of some ancient religion.
Thus Intellectual-Principle is a vestige of the Supreme; but since the vestige is a Form going out into extension, into plurality, that Prior, as the source of Form, must be itself without shape and Form: if the Prior were The Six Enneads.
If we fail to shake off the vestiges of colonialism this is our own indaba, not the dead colonialists' as far as I am concerned.
Yet present-day courts cling to this vestige of medievalism.
VI., etc., with equal certainty suggests quinary counting, but the Latin language contains no vestige of anything of the kind, and the whole range of Latin literature is silent on this point, though it contains numerous references to finger counting. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
There are reasons for supposing that the truncal coelom was at one time provided with pore-canals, but supposed vestiges of these structures have only been described for one genus, _Spengelia_, in which they lie near the anterior end of the truncal coelom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Isn't it just the continued impact of the liberal revolution of the 1960s which liberated us from the vestiges of Victorian prudery?
Crikey does this better than most, but potentially could do better by discarding any remaining vestiges of political correctness.
Modern science see's this gland as an anomaly, a useless vestige from our ancestors with no known purpose.
Once acclimated and having sloughed off her Old World vestiges, she seemed to have turned into an "American."
Railroad officials dismantled the line and removed all vestiges of the iron rails.
The government has to remove any last vestiges of corruption.
From here, as from the Sassi Bianco, one sees its true form and its actual summit; while of the one no idea can be formed, and of the other no vestige is visible, from either the Tre Sassi or the Fedaja. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
Sprouts were distinguished from primary stems by the trace of an inflorescence and by the difference in the age of the shoots, which could be determined by counting the number of bud scale vestiges.
But you invariably do come out the other side and, with any luck, with the vestiges of most of the good things intact. Times, Sunday Times
The owner of the company that owns the mine, the International Coal Group, is holding out hope, any kind of vestige of hope that these 13 miners are still alive. CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006
But Chelsea knew full well where such an outburst had come from; a little nagging voice from the vestiges of childish memory had prodded her, and she'd fallen for it.
He looked at her without a vestige of sympathy.
The Buddhists and Brahmanists teach that the man's individuality is not secured until he has passed through and become disembarrassed of the last of these groups, the final vestige of earthly taint.
It had originally belonged to one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the county, for a strictly modern house, without a vestige of antiqueness lingering in its halls and with no faint aroma of bygone days pervading its atmosphere, would have been entirely too plebeian to suit the tastes of Hugh Mainwaring. That Mainwaring Affair
The new law removed the last vestiges of royal power.
It took away the remaining vestiges of legal support for the closed shop which, while not rendering the closed shop unlawful, made it virtually impossible to operate.
Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief, the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear.
Wines made without sulfites should have a label, but tying that label to how they were farmed is a vestige that should be removed from our wine laws. Is there an eco-certification premium but an eco-label discount? | Dr Vino's wine blog
Now Tutsi radicals are trying to "cleanse" the government of the last vestiges of multiethnicity. The Rise Of Tribal Terror
If that's for good or ill can't be judged, because the only vestiges we get of that more satirical version are a few extended scenes among the extras.
This is where my last vestiges of immaturity come out in final blaze of glory.
He was always seen in a maroon-colored coat with gilt buttons, half-tight breeches of poult-de-soie with gold buckles, a white waistcoat without embroidery, and a tight cravat showing no shirt-collar, -- a last vestige of the old French costume which he did not renounce, perhaps, because it enabled him to show a neck like that of the sleekest abbe. An Old Maid
After Ellena had quitted this pastoral camp, no vestige of a human residence appeared for several leagues, except here and there the towers of a decayed fortress, perched upon the lofty acclivities she was approaching, and half concealed in the woods. The Italian
The new law removed the last vestiges of royal power.
On broad lines, then, we have among the Germans the following phases: vestiges of gynecocracy; equal rights; androcracy; commencement of equality. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
On the other were tenants clinging desperately to the last vestige of their community.
The sort of people the service attracted and needed were determined to hang on to a vestige of individuality when they put on air-force blue. Times, Sunday Times
The court remonstrated that the edict did away with the last vestiges of its authority despite solemn pledges of previous kings.
So, while Hollingworth's rebuttal is mentioned on his website and remains in the vestiges of cyberspace for those willing to peruse it, there is something nugatory about it.
Bishop Lyttelton used to plague me to death about barrows, and tumuli, and Roman camps, and all those bumps in the ground that do not amount to a most imperfect ichnography; but, in good truth, I am content with all arts when perfected, nor inquire how ingeniously people contrive to do without them -- and I care still less for remains of art that retain no vestiges of art. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
A shallow fossa is occasionally found on the ventral surface of the basilar portion anterior to the pharyngeal tubercle, which has been interpreted as a vestige of the canal of the notochord.
This was on-the-edge black comedy that dispelled any vestige of condescension that might have been felt towards the performers.
At the head of each procession walked an Indian beating a drum, _tap, tap, tap_, without a vestige of time. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
In the middle of the flo or was a large, old-fashioned trough with vestiges of some swill in it. IN LOVE AND WAR
Why do we have superfluous, but potentially deadly vestiges like the appendix or wisdom teeth?
Tall, loose-limbed and square-shouldered, Taylor still has all the vestiges of the matinee-idol good looks that labelled him one of the most handsome men on the dance scene in the second half of the last century.
‘vestigium’, not ‘vestige’, in Culverwell; ‘pantomimus’ in Lord Bacon for ‘pantomime’; ‘mystagogus’ for ‘mystagogue’, in Jackson; ‘atomi’ in English Past and Present
Here the last vestiges of the figurative, a few delicately poised hands, flowers and shells, are subsumed into patterned and highly coloured surfaces of glazes, scumbles, impasto, sgraffito, stipples, dots and splodges of paint.
This group are filthy in their habits, without a vestige of discipline, and are cowards to a degree.
And yet when we bring these scanty vestiges together we find that enough is left to give the taste and invention of the Assyrian ornamentist a very high place in our respect. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
Such a statement implies that the appendix represents a vestige of an organ with a former greater existence in the evolutionary sense, rather than in an earlier stage of its development.
Such an outcome would destroy what vestiges of credibility Scottish football retains as a result of this long-running summer farce. Times, Sunday Times
The hyoid arch becomes attached, to the otic capsule, and its median ventral plate, including also the vestiges of the first, second, and fourth branchial arches, is called the hyoid apparatus. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
the last vestiges of the old colonial regime.
The little mass was placed under the microscope; some of the fibrillae in the middle still exhibited transverse striae; others showed not a vestige of striae; and every gradation could be traced between these two states. Insectivorous Plants
Her flesh cried out to be closer, and, with the last vestiges of sanity, alarm bells rang.
Indeed, the private college today is one of the last vestiges of hope in a desert of statism.
Contributing to this foetor was the smell emanating from the table, whose surface was littered with the vestiges of various meals—the decaying fragments of a catfish; the partially gnawed disjecta membra of a chicken; a beef bone to which waxy gobbets of congealed fat continued to cling. Nevermore
Considerable vestiges of these remained among the Welsh in the time of the Saxon Heptarchy.
In the Town Square, shops have been replaced by cafes and restaurants and the last vestiges of mall functionality have been eradicated completely in favor of lifestyle hedonism.
I need to reconcile these two Yorkvilles, past and present, and either give up on the place altogether or cling to whatever vestiges of real culture or real history still exist.
The unique vestige of the middle ages, namely, a firepan, or pitchpot, on the south-west tower of the church, was blown down in January, 1779 and carefully repaired, though now not required for the purpose of giving an alarm at the approach of a foe, by lighting pitch within it. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827
Now most buildings that retained vestiges of the colonial legacy in the city have had their design and designation changed.
The cottages, even the church which once existed there, have sunk into vestiges hardly to be traced without visiting the spot, the inhabitants having gradually withdrawn to the more prosperous town of Galashiels, which has risen into consideration, within two miles of their neighbourhood. The Monastery
“In point of _direct_ sensibility, the chrysotype paper is certainly inferior to the calotype; but it is one of the most remarkable peculiarities of gold as a photographic ingredient, that _extremely feeble impressions once made by light go on afterwards, darkening spontaneously and very slowly, apparently without limit so long as the least vestige of unreduced chloride of gold remains in the paper_. Photographic Reproduction Processes
They do not represent primitive vestiges of an early stage in the linear progress of life.
The government has to remove any last vestiges of corruption.
The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable.
In others the softer shells and bones are dissolved, and only sharks teeth or harder echini have preserved their form inveloped in the chalk or lime-stone; in some marbles the solution has been compleat and no vestiges of shell appear, as in the white kind called statuary by the workmen. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
Long assumed to be vestiges from the time when whale ancestors had body hair, it now seems that these structures have a role in sensing vibrations. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
There were plenty of professors who were forever assiduously browsing in vales of Enna and on Pentelican slopes among the vestiges of antiquity, slowly secreting lacteous facts, and not one of them would have raised his head from that exquisite pasturage, though Pan had made music through his pipe of reeds. Among My Books First Series
Otherwise, any remaining country vestiges are kept hidden beneath forty layers of shine and polish, plus of course Felder's poorly mixed lead guitar overdubs.
At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible. Undefined
And most of all, protection is urgently required from the wholesale destruction of every last vestige of Nature in our lives.
These fragments of wall in London are vestiges of the Roman occupation.
Any hint or vestige of western culture, or perhaps it should be called ‘global cosmopolitan culture,’ was taboo.
Until then, it will remain associated with the vestiges of the prehistoric age, with the collective unconscious, which is subject to a peculiar and ever-increasing activation.
The Utterwords and the Hushabyes represent, respectively, the last vestiges of Colonialism and Bohemianism.
Surely Madame Chapote on her bicycle might well have been a vestige of her former identity as inmate.
the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
They contain no vestige of self-doubt, no scintilla of scientific uncertainty and more than a hint of patronage.
Her flesh cried out to be closer, and, with the last vestiges of sanity, alarm bells rang.
There is nowhere quite like Tiree - to stroll over the machair, covered with clover, wild thyme, harebells and frog orchids, is to slough off every vestige of urban stress.
Michael and I spent two days, sometimes on hands and knees, in a chigger-infested jungle of pine and kudzu seeking vestiges of the Gudger shack.
So these people, they were the real deal, the last remaining vestiges of a formerly powerful republic.
She looked at him in reproach so deep that the last vestige of the terror of death was gone from her eyes. THE KANAKA SURF
That leaves it free to act as savagely and brutally as it needs to snuff out the last vestiges of revolt. Times, Sunday Times
For this flood, ministers have produced not a vestige of proof.
These natural blessings supported Cambodia's ancient culture, the glorious vestiges of which can still be clearly seen in the ruins at Angkor Wat.
It also saw the disappearance of the last vestiges of the old journalism, with news and photographs displacing advertisements on the front pages of even the most conservative papers.
He, on the other hand, was running away from the old janitor who (miracle of miracles) also happened to be psychic and must have some vestiges of talent left over from his high school track team.
Clinging to the last vestiges of anger at your dad for never kissing you goodnight or reading your term papers? The 8 Truths About Weddings (That No One Ever Tells You)
We represent the last vestige of what made this nation great — hard work.
I criss-crossed the western United States, and at the time nearly everyplace had some vestige of tiki culture.
Critics see it as an attack on the last vestiges of media freedom in Russia. Times, Sunday Times
Marriage was a public ceremony, the only socially approved expression of sexual desire was within marriage, and married couples held a privileged position in law, some vestiges of which still remain.
I'm struggling to retain any vestige of belief in his innocence.
This snobbery is perhaps the last remaining vestige or outcrop of the once formidable massif of Victorian optimism. Hubris, thy name is Gonzo!
I look over to where the snow bank remained last week, the last vestiges of a record five-foot February snowfall.
The new law removed the last vestiges of royal power.
Built in the late 1700s, as residences of prosperous sugar planters, these vestiges of colonial Jamaica, mounted high above their estates, were the centre of social and economic life.
And then, of course, there are vestigeal words and expressions from British English that continue to be used in Indian English, such as "godown" and "brinjal"; or uniquely Indian formations such as "prepone" (which, by the way, has been admitted conditionally by the most recent editions of some standard British dictionaries). WordPress.com News
Though the East End is now mostly populated by later-arriving immigrants, a few bakers of the British "beigel" -- two of them on Brick Lane -- are lingering "vestiges of the area's Jewish past. The Story of a Bread's Long Rise
I wondered whether it was some kind of vestige of Catholic theology from their education system. or "some class of vestige of Catholic theology". Languagehat.com: SOUTH INDIAN NAMES.
But the attempt to define and punish a category of speech as obscene is an atavistic vestige from a distant era.
This was his supreme moment; yet his delicate face and sombre eyes remained impassive, showed no vestige of emotion.
The mountain, still showing the last vestiges of human inhabitance just the night before, exploded in a shower of dust.
Man occupied some of the caves in ancient times, because vestiges of humans have been revealed in cave paintings and zoomorphic figures. Guide to alternative tourism in Michoacán
These old buildings are the last vestiges of a colonial past.
I'm struggling to retain any vestige of belief in his innocence.
Could this be a sign that we have lost the remaining vestiges of faith and hope in the triumph of the human spirit?
The sort of people the service attracted and needed were determined to hang on to a vestige of individuality when they put on air-force blue. Times, Sunday Times
The federal Office of Civil Rights had determined that vestiges of segregation still existed in Texas higher education.
There are reasons for supposing that the truncal coelom was at one time provided with pore-canals, but supposed vestiges of these structures have only been described for one genus, _Spengelia_, in which they lie near the anterior end of the truncal coelom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Any remaining vestiges of Catholic influence are markers of tradition, not part of the religion.
Instead, they were moments that struck me as evidence that the vestiges of basic human civility could remain, despite the all-encompassing hedonism and mechanism.
This was his supreme moment; yet his delicate face and sombre eyes remained impassive, showed no vestige of emotion.
These barriers, located in the near environment, sometimes unknowingly accepted by us and often tacitly deployed through routine decisions and judgments, persist as a vestige of our liminality…
But a creature is called a vestige based on properties which point to God as triple cause “ efficient, formal, and final cause; for example, the properties: one, true, and good.” [ Amputee
Surely Madame Chapote on her bicycle might well have been a vestige of her former identity as inmate.
By 1926, all vestiges of democracy had been wiped out through repressive laws and brutal violence. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
In any event, the development of pharmacological drugs and community-based programs causes laws on commitment to a hospital to be regarded as archaic vestiges of a bygone era.
I write with grave concern at what I understand to be extremely short-sighted and inappropriate proposals to change the very nature of one of the few remaining vestiges of Bolton's retail heritage.
Yes I do like the humour of throwing the word proletariat at Labour MP's who have sold out and whored away all the last vestiges of socialism. Gordonomics - Life on the streets in Gordon Browns "Cool Britannia"
Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
On two nothing could be seen but little masses of transparent viscid fluid; but when these were examined under a high power, fat-globules, bits of fibro-elastic tissue, and some few parallelograms of sarcous matter, could be distinguished, but not a vestige of transverse striae. Insectivorous Plants
The remaining vestiges of the Women's Army Corps were eliminated by Congress in 1978 so that women in the army could be more fully assimilated into the overall army structure.
In fact, after seeing her whorish behaviour with Hawthorne, William had lost the last vestiges of his admiration for her.
These old buildings are the last vestiges of a colonial past.
Kliment Voroshilov, the chairman of the Soviet Presidium, publicly declared: “The Soviet Union is ready to supply Syria with the necessary assistance to overcome as rapidly as possible the vestiges of colonialism and to reinforce its complete independence.” Eisenhower 1956
These old buildings are the last vestiges of a colonial past.
The back of the RD was the last vestige of the golden age of illustration. Wednesday, August 19 – The Bleat.
Both hands were amputated just distal to the carpus, leaving three metacarpal stumps on the right hand and a vestige of one metacarpal on the left hand.
Societies of Paris, etc. Neurologist to Freedmen's Hospital and Epiphany Dispensary, Lecturer on Nervous and Mental Diseases, Howard University, Washington, D.C. THERE is a general impression that the explanations of natural phenomena, including human destinies, to which the term superstitious is given are usually attributable to the vestiges of traditional cosmogonies of our tribal ancestors handed down to children at the knees of their parents or guardians. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Foreign Relations: An internationalist only when it comes to attacking the vestiges of communism, Jesse Helms harries Foggy Bottom over foreign aid and trains a suspicious eye on the United Nations. Rolling Back The Right
Did it purify me of the last vestige of any desire that might still be hanging around?
The bagman becomes the last vestige of her innocence; thoroughly corrupted by her jealous rage.
It was good to have somewhere to go where there appeared to be a vestige of sanity, and River never made him feel unwelcome.

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