It was her job to climb into the wine vat and scoop out the dregs. From LearnThat.org.
These frequently remain as the so-called dregs of some illness, and are found very persistent. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Paterfamilias is obliged to drink the cup of gaiety to the dregs, which is almost worse than being in office. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference
I'm afraid they are not getting the 'dregs'of our young women. From Wordnik.com. [At last a Response] Reference
Hence they will all go to the college and the 1st to 5th form schools will get the "dregs". From Wordnik.com. [Another Lib Dem MP on education] Reference
This admission of free air and light is a very great preventive of the "dregs" which form so troublesome a feature in measles. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
The "dregs" are already here, with you as one of their most eloquent spokespersons. From Wordnik.com. [TimesArgus.com: Sports] Reference
I kept wondering why the "dregs" were somehow thrown into a weird caste system of healthcare?. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Slate] Reference
(Isaiah 25: 6) To drink the lees, or "dregs," was an expression for the endurance of extreme punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
'' 'lêes' '' '' dregs '' cf. '' 'lêase' '' '' contract '', unvoiced '' 's. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
When dregs of fits peters, composure is bestirred. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
O, what a bitter draught was theirs, even to the very dregs!. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Griddled mice and dregs of whey, daren't leave the house now. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfskin] Reference
I empty my cup, tasting the sugary dregs, then drink some water. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary] Reference
You can't know the future from the dregs at the bottom of a mug. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune Favours] Reference
When the last dregs stop wind dancing& your mouth is dry and dull. From Wordnik.com. [Red Velvet Curtains] Reference
He was dropping into the dregs of an exceptionally hazy summer night. From Wordnik.com. [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] Reference
Is the dregs of wit, yet mingled with good drink may have some relish. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Nanette grinds her teeth, stares into the dregs of her espresso. From Wordnik.com. [Hotel Chelsea - Nanette 4] Reference
The few hot sunny days seemed long past; the dregs went down the river. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference
Roanne had a smile for all but the dregs and those whose eyes shouted danger. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne Smiled] Reference
This is what we Bobos ask ourselves while staring into the dregs of our merlot. From Wordnik.com. [From High Art To The Art Of The Deal] Reference
"But you can't drink the rest because of the dregs that have settled on the bottom.". From Wordnik.com. [Kabul Time Capsule] Reference
"It appears to me," replied De Thou, gravely, "that you drink it even to the very dregs.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They took to their cups to drown their sorrow, and found a sorrow more poignant among the dregs. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Yet in silent submission she drank the chalice to the dregs, without one atom of human consolation. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Aside the impressive facades of million dollar homes, the city's dregs skateboarded or rollerbladed. From Wordnik.com. [Every Drug Addict Is the Same Person] Reference
This bunker fuel is the heaviest, dirtiest fuel — it's the dregs left over from the refining process. From Wordnik.com. [A Nasty Spill] Reference
The normal mind can select well its world -- miserably his mind lived with these dregs of his own choice. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
They focus on the supposed dregs of society, a group with no political clout and little claim to compassion. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Away And Forgotten] Reference
Incised ceramic vessels, some still containing corn, dried meat and dregs of liquor, lay beside the children. From Wordnik.com. [The Children Of The Ice] Reference
And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
She felt as though she were draining the cup of sorrow to its dregs, without the strength to pray that it might pass from her. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
It is an important operation because irremediable damage is caused to wine by allowing it to remain in contact with the dregs. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
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