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
"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
Stanzas of final peace Lie in the heart's residuum.
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
What harm does the little residuum or germ of actuality that I leave in God do?
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
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
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
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
The former, however, is now seldom to be met with, the varieties employed on the palette being the residua of various resinous and bituminous matters, distilled for the sake of their essential oils.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
These residua are all black and glossy like common pitch, which differs from them only in having been less acted upon by fire, and thence in being softer.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
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