remains
/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/ noun B2- The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse. · They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.· The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
- Historical or archaeological relics.
- The extant writings of a deceased person. · To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants. · He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
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He must write his own sermons; and the time that remains will not be too much for his parish duties, and the care and improvement of his dwelling, which he cannot be excused from making as comfortable as possible.
“You may depend upon it, madam,” said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, “that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us.”
And now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.
Collins would have led them round his two meadows; but the ladies, not having shoes to encounter the remains of a white frost, turned back; and while Sir William accompanied him, Charlotte took her sister and friend over the house, extremely well pleased, probably, to have the opportunity of showing it without her husband’s help.
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