195 Verbs to Use for the Word remnants

The enemy drew off, but to save the remnants of his storming troops kept our positions from near Ras et

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.

But for these considerations, it had been my intention to have collected the remnants of his compositions, and to have published them with a Life and criticism.

Fair earth, and thou fair sky, I gaze upon you for the last time; buried from the face of day in the centre of the deepest mine, I'll spend the remnant of my life unpitied and unknown."

"The Lord shall set his hand again to recover (to buy) the remnant of his people."

Still, it brings the scattered remnants of the Liberal party together and enables them to try once more whether they can govern with success....

He was observed, after dinner, carefully to gather up the remnants left at his table (not many, nor very choice fragments, you may credit me)and, in an especial manner, these disreputable morsels, which he would convey away, and secretly stow in the settle that stood at his bed-side.

Islam was no less opposed than Christianity to the practice of magic in any form, but only so far as these practices seemed to preserve remnants of heathen beliefs.

I had seen on my travels the Indians that dwelled in the Tidewater, remnants of the old great clans of Doeg and Powhatan and Pamunkey.

At any rate Courtin found the remnants of his countrymen in despair, and in 1759 he wrote a letter to Clive and the Council of Calcutta, from which I quote one or two paragraphs: "With the most bitter grief I have received advice of the sentence you have passed on the French Settlement at Chandernagore, by which all the buildings, as well of the Company as of private persons, are to be utterly demolished.

In the sunlit yard the chauffeur, his cap on the back of his head, his cigarette drooping from his lips, was tossing the remnants of a sandwich to a circle of excited hens.

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

Caesar now proceeded to teach the cities a lesson by levying money and taking away the remnant of authority over their citizens that they possessed in their assemblies.

Generally Clotilde loved this solitude passionately; this narrow kingdom which she could go over in ten minutes, and which still retained remnants of its past grandeur.

Clovis had succeeded about the year 485 of our era, in destroying the last remnants of Roman domination in Gaul.

he asked, placing the remnants of my half-burned communication in her hands.

Perhaps on this alluvial terrace there lived a remnant of the coastal peoples.

It was considered unlucky to throw away the remnants of a baking.

Captain Mason was again sent to subdue this remnant of the tribe; and the destruction that was accomplished on these unhappy exiles spread a fear of the white men through all the Indian race in that part of the continent.

From this castle is a subterraneous passage containing many curious remnants of antiquity.

" From this and other writings of Garibaldi it is clear that from the night of June 21st he considered any further attempt to prevent the French from entering Rome as worse than uselessthat hence he refused to lead the remnants of his army "to butchery" on the breach.

" "And you have thoroughly investigated her character, and know that she has the well-balanced mind which will be very much wanted here, and that she has cut off and swept away all remnants of former attachments to other young men?" Ralph twisted himself around impatiently.

And when morning broke Surya, rising red above the eastern hills, watched the hungry waves cast up beside her fourteen white corpses, the remnants of her crewsilent suppliants for the last great rites which open to man the passage into the next world.

The rich wine of that place had of old impressed him with a high respect for its monastic establishments, in one of which he quietly wore out the remnant of his days.

I searched my pockets, and gave her the remnants of the bread and bacon I had brought from the Rappahannock post.

195 Verbs to Use for the Word  remnants