The good wine was poured from the barrel, leaving the lees behind. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : The lee of the rock gave us some protection against the storm. ,We erected our huts under the lee of the mountain. From Dictionary.com.
He wrote that the animals were being fed waste by-products from a winery, known as lees, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
The effect of wealthy undisturbed ease ( "lees") on the ungodly is hardening: they become stupidly secure (compare Ps 55: 19; Am 6: 1). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
It was applied to "lees" from the custom of allowing wine to stand on the lees that it might thereby be better preserved (Isa. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
By now the Kentaurs were licking the jug for lees. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
A thick lees trickled from it, darker than the wine. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Shelby was left solitary with the litter and the lees. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
He that is red for windlestraws, should not sleep in lees. From Wordnik.com. [Collection of Scotch Proverbs] Reference
"Wanneer gaat, minheer, dan mij stukkie lees uit die Bijbel?". From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Endurance] Reference
Friends prove faithless, once the cask is drained to the lees. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
Yet, since you liked the wine, you should now consume the lees. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Mix together fuller's earth and soap lees, and rub it into the boards. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
There is a depth of life -- life on the lees -- that is worse than death!. From Wordnik.com. [Master of His Fate] Reference
The white boarhound nudged my hand; he always begged for the lees to lick. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
The lees of twenty ducats shabby in his fist told her how near the peril was. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Wine, given its flavour by soil and water, 236; lees used to make black, 218. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Rack off into clean vessels, throwing away the lees, and cork or cover close. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
Sulla looked into his cup, then flicked the lees expertly onto an empty platter. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
I have tasted the sweets of life's chalice -- why shrink from the lees at the last?. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
There's A lot of legal lees (ph) and I'll try not to get bogged down by all of this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2006] Reference
Chimes, 'runs thinner in' The Haunted Man, 'and in' The Battle of Life 'is lees and mud. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Cover tight then and leave standing six weeks longer, so the wine may fatten on the lees. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
The lees are emptied out, and will, if distilled, make a fine flavored and very strong brandy. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference
There was wine left in the bottle and he felt a bit better once he'd drained that to the lees. From Wordnik.com. [Through Wolfs Eyes] Reference
The lees of his wine seemed to fascinate Bomilcar, who stirred them into swirls with his finger. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Let it dry and then scour it off with some strong soft soap and sand, or use lees to scour it with. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
To remedy this, they sometimes anointed the wood of which their fuel was composed, with lees of oil. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
That is, the wealthy, and such as live at their ease, resting upon their riches, like wine upon the lees. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 41: Sophonias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Conte's secret, if temperamental, ingredient is sake kasu, or the lees that remain after sake fermentation. From Wordnik.com. [Kasu: the next "it" ingredient?] Reference
They are again well sprinkled with liquid manure, also with the lees of oil at intervals of about seven days. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
A copious deposit of lees generally takes place after the first racking, and a second one should speedily follow. 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
In racking there is a withdrawal of the wine from the sediment which it casts down, and which is known as the lees. 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
The lees of wine contain it in considerable quantity, and it is also found as a crystalline deposit in the inside of the casks. 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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