Walker and Eells were for nearly ten years, one among the Umatillas, where was the remnant of the Cayuse tribe who remained friendly during the Cayuse war.
Remnant extended from 42nd to 49th parallel and from Rocky Mountains to Pacific Ocean.
This Priesthood, as was then declared, is also to remain upon the earth until the last remnant of time.
And then shall the work of the Father commence at that day, even when this gospel shall be preached among the remnant of this people [the Indians].
The boys gazed at each other for one moment in silence, then hastily stuffed the remnant of their feast into their pockets.
Perhaps its fall was thought by Hezekiah to open the door to drawing 'the remnant that were escaped' back to the ancient unity of worship, at all events, if not of polity.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
The execution was terrible; regiments that marched up the hill as if to certain victory fell back from it a mere remnant of themselves, leaving most of their men and almost all their officers behind.
The very idea is but a remnant of the tawdry sentimentality of an age in which the mawkish insipidity of the women was the reaction from the vice of that preceding it.
After the death of Allaster Macgregor of Glenstrae, the last chieftain, the office of chief had ceased to be held by any representative of the scattered remnant of this hunted tribe.
Lord Enniskillen is an excellent landlord, but the descendants of the remnant of the natives on his estate do not forget how the family obtained its wealth and honours.
But the Commissioners undertook faithfully to mediate with the Parliament that they might enjoy such a remnant of their lands as might make their lives comfortable at home, or be enabled to emigrate.
No black remnant of a wall tells that where sheep now browze and lambs frisk there was once a fireside, where the family affections were cherished, and a home where happy children played in the sunshine.
Pity they were not preserved as a remnantof the antediluvian period, ere the ancient tenures were merged in floods of blood.
He, too, of Chindasuintho’s regal line Sole remnant now, drew after him the love Of all true Goths.
This, by what I can learn, is the onlyremnant of the ancient fights which the Goths must have learned from the Romans; cruel and barbarous exhibitions, much "more honored in the breach than in the observance.
After a three days' bombardment, the last remnant was finally driven out.
Well she knew, that with even that slight veil between her and the outer world, the last remnant of self-command would go.
Collect theremnant of our friends, and wait The appointed issue of our enterprize.
Now tell the remnant of thy brother's tale, Which horror darkly hid from me before.
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
The remnant shall return, even the remnantof Jacob, unto the mighty God.
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
No more convincing evidence that man gained his body through descent from the lower animals could be asked for than the survival in the human brain of this wonderfully significant remnant of a formerly useful organ.
It is the remnantof a creature significantly on the dividing line between man-ape and man.
Upon which Miss Beresford loses the lastremnant of her patience, and very properly turns her back on him.
Ellsworth, who was sent (1833) to arrange with the Pawnee for the well-being of the remnant of the Delaware tribe, that had been removed to the west of the Mississippi.
When the smallpox swept away the inhabitants of these villages (1837), the remnant of the Mandan abandoned them to the Arikkara, and formed one small village between their former towns and the mouth of Knife River.
The remnant was driven into a small island below these rapids, where the entire race was "cut to pieces.
During these transactions, general Amherst was taking measures for the annihilation of the remnant of French power in Canada.
During theremnant of his life, he was annually chosen governor.
The determination to abandon the country was immediately taken, and the wretched remnant of the colony embarked on board the vessels, and sailed for England.
Sagabonock has left only the remnant of its name to Sag-pond and Sag-harbor.
In the French and Indian war of 1756, the remnant of the tribe was carried away to Canada by the St. Francis Indians, an organization of kindred elements in the French service.
In a final encounter General Huehuetenuxcatl fell, and the small remnant of the Toltec army was scattered in the mountains and in the marshes of the lake shore.
The remnant of our original force and two machine guns were left in Khwash, under the command of Colonel Claridge.
Three or four days later we were much elated to learn that a junction had been effected between Colonel Claridge, the remnant of the prisoners' escort, and the three hundred men of the 106th Hazara Pioneers under Major Lang.
For two days and two nights the little remnant under Thackeray still clung to the south-west corner of the wood against impossible odds, and did not break.
From 8th August to 26th September it was his task to crumble the enemy's front, destroy the last remnant of his reserves, force him beyond all his prepared defences, and make ready for the final battle which would give victory.
Their orders were to maintain it at all costs, for unless Mont St. Quentin was held, Peronne would fall, and if Peronne fell it would be a very battered remnant that would struggle back to the main Hindenburg Line.
When the remnant of his brigade paraded before him, Lukin took the salute with uncovered head and eyes not free from tears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "remnant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
