Careful Words

remnant (n.)

Earth! render back from out thy breast

A remnant of our Spartan dead!

Of the three hundred grant but three

To make a new Thermopylae.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 7.

A remnant of uneasy light.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Matron of Jedborough.