Picked-over items

Usage examples of remains.

Deborah's and Fred's remains had been defleshed, degreased, photographed from every angle, the inventory of their bones completed.

Determining the sex and race of skeletal remains cannot always be done at a glance.

Tuning out their conversation, I arranged one of the sheets next to the female's remains and turned her on her back.

On top of a white sheet covering the first stainless steel table were Deborah Harvey's remains, gray dirty bones, clumps of muddy hair, and ligaments as tan and tough as shoe leather.

Skeletal remains get gnawed, chewed on, and torn from limb to limb by rats, buzzards, dogs, and raccoons.

Some remains were archaeological, others turned out to be bear or beaver paws or the hydrocephalic skulls of calves, human-looking artifacts found along the wayside or turned up by plows, and feared, at first, to be what was left of a person who had met a violent end.

The same sticker I was given years ago when the skeletal remains were discovered at that archaeology dig, Martin's Hundred.

I had accused investigators of tampering with Fred Cheney's and Deborah Harvey's remains at the scene, and then returned to the wooded area to search for a cartridge case myself because I did not trust the police to find it.

Twilight lingers, and the sky remains the purple maroon that is beginning to fade, but the lamps set in brackets on the columns have already been lit.

The Palace remains an edifice of shimmering white, and light beams from its windows, from the innumerable lamps within its high-ceilinged corridors and halls.

None of the five manuals in the built-in oak bookcase has been opened in years, if not generations, as Lorn discovers when lifting one and discovering that a thin strip of leather from the binding remains stuck to the wood of the shelves.

Helkyt remains silent as they continue riding, the expressions on his face varying from concern to puzzlement as he occasionally casts a sidelong glance at Lorn.

He hopes that Flutak remains alone, for the overcaptain knows he cannot afford to lurk and wait, or to dally.

The courtyard remains quiet, as is the stable, and no one disturbs Lorn as he saddles the chestnut.

While Lorn remains troubled over the woman's death, he has seen enough to know that all too many in Cyador do not value daughters over golds.