leavings

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Leavings Sold at auction: the furnishings of "Friendship," the late Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean's mansion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leavings from other club rooms no longer apply, and disgruntled alumni associations in schools have ceased to contemplate a move to the nearest branch library.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

By these blanchings, blooms of old, And the relics of your voice - Leavings rare of rich and choice From your early tone and mould - Let me mourn,—aye, sorrow-wrung,    Faded Face,       Sorrow-wrung!

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas

In the Septuagint this book of the Chronicles was called "Paraleipomena," "Leavings," "Things Left Over," "Supplements."

From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Gladden, Washington

It had been dinged into him that True Politeness means to wait until every one else has been Served and then murmur a few Thanks for the Leavings.

From Knocking the Neighbors by Ade, George