Then I commenced to examine the surface of the ground, near the edge of the abyss, to see whether there were not left other remnants of the building to which the fragment of ruin evidently belonged.

Now, because Sequoia trunks are never wholly consumed in one forest fire, and those fires recur only at considerable intervals, and because Sequoia ditches after being cleared are often left unplanted for centuries, it becomes evident that the trunk remnant in question may probably have lain a thousand years or more.

The Christian Indians led the remnant to Brookfield.

He flung the remnant at my face, so that the ragged end scratched my cheek.

You must askWhen was the gap between the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Purbeck sawn through, leaving the Needles as remnants on one side, and Old Harry on the opposite?

It would have been difficult to reduce the whole huge block to fragments; and when the work of destruction had advanced so far, Michelangelo's servant Antonio, the successor to Urbino, begged the remnants from his master.

I felt none, and when Aunt Mercy boiled the remnants with milk for a pudding, the sacred ideality of the ceremony I had seen at church was destroyed for me.

To him, this outsider of the world of fashion, I am only a homely old woman; no prestige comes in to garnish the unvarnished facta plain old maid, my dearwith not even the remembrance of beauty as a consolation, nor its remnant as a sign of past triumphs, 'only this and nothing more,' as that wonderful man Poe makes his raven say.

To be taken with such remnants by any visitor would be bad, but by this visitor would be dreadful.

Midway Lawrence had fallen upon them and driven the remnants into the hills above the head waters of the James.

In blinding flame and strangling smoke The remnant through the batteries broke And crossed the works with Armistead.

As usual, on this date, she was carrying the remnant about with her.