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Remains

noun

1.

Any object that is left unused or still extant.

2.

The dead body of a human being. Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, stiff. "The end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse" , "The murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river" , "Honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

Remain

verb

(past & past part. remained; pres. part. remaining)

1.

Stay the same; remain in a certain state. Synonyms: rest, stay. "Rest assured" , "Stay alone" , "He remained unmoved by her tears" , "The bad weather continued for another week"

2.

Continue in a place, position, or situation. Synonyms: continue, stay, stay on. "Stay with me, please" , "Despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year" , "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"

3.

Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.. "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

4.

Stay behind. Synonyms: persist, stay. "The hostility remained long after they made up"

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"Remains" Quotes from Famous Books

... dark-green silver spruces stood above the pines. And here were patches of sage, fresh and pungent, and long reaches of bleached grass. It was the edge of a forest. Wildfire's trail went on. Slone came at length to a group of pines, and here he found the remains of a camp fire, and some flint arrow-heads. Indians had been in there, probably having come from the opposite direction to Slone's. This encouraged him, for where Indians could hunt so could he. Soon ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

... see the most beautiful park, and the finest views from it all the way to the Isle of Man, that are to be seen in all Ireland." He was very much interested in the curious story of the sequestration of the remains of Mr. Stewart of New York, who was born, he tells me, at Lisburn, where the wildest fabrications on the subject seem to have got currency. That this feat of body-snatching is supposed to have been performed by a little syndicate of Italians, afterwards broken up by the firmness of Lady ...

— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert

... that Eugene Field gave to Edward Bok, full of anxieties and of continuous forebodings, but it was worth all that it cost in mental perturbation. No rarer friend ever lived: in his serious moments he gave one a quality of unforgetable friendship that remains a precious memory. But his desire for practical jokes was uncontrollable: it meant being constantly on one's guard, and even then the pranks could not ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)

... the writer, which arrived too late for use during the harvest of the present season. From one or two trials, however, and those under the disadvantageous circumstances of arranging a new machine, and the forced selection of a spot little suited for experiment, no doubt remains of the result. ...

— Obed Hussey - Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap • Various

... civilized man, like the wastes of the ocean or the deserts of Arabia; and, like them, be subject to the depredations of the marauder. Here may spring up new and mongrel races, like new formations in geology, the amalgamation of the "debris" and "abrasions" of former races, civilized and savage; the remains of broken and almost extinguished tribes; the descendants of wandering hunters and trappers; of fugitives from the Spanish and American frontiers; of adventurers and desperadoes of every class and country, yearly ejected from the bosom of society into the wilderness. We are ...

— Astoria - Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains • Washington Irving

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