residuum
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The bed looked like the residuum of a lost weekend, yet it also intimated that the bed’s occupant felt herself to be lost, too.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015
The first machine age, which today is coming to an end, has covered the world with the residuum of its work: houses and cities.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I have no objection to its being known that my death is voluntary," he wrote, "and I desire cremation as simply and quickly as possible, with no residuum anywhere."
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty."
From Time Magazine Archive
The residuum consists of a violet-coloured powder, which, by sublimation, is converted into cinnabar.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
Again he says, "The more things we try to explain, the better we realize that we live in a world of unexplained residua."
From Studies in the Life of the Christian by Sell, Henry T. (Henry Thorne)
It is well, however, to place the closed apparatus in water, in order that the residua that have entered the threads of the screw may become detached, and that the apparatus may be opened easily.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
The residua of distillation remain almost entirely in the reservoir, O, from whence they are easily removed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 by Various
It is the residua of these experiences that have persisted and become associated into complexes which are retained as traits of our personality.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
In children these motor residua may persist as characteristic features of inflection, accent, or manners; automatisms may become morbid in stammering or stuttering, or they may be seen in gait, handwriting, tics or tweaks, etc.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
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