dregs

• She would drain the cup of pleasure, though the dregs might be bitter to the taste. —  Love affairs of the Courts of Europe
• You have strong passions, you have not much experience, you do not know how bitter the dregs are of the cup whose foaming bubbles look so attractive, and whose upper inch tastes so sweet. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• Yes, I've had dregs--dregs--and nothing but dregs for the last fifteen years He spoke with a bitterness that he scarcely attempted to restrain, and the girl at his feet nodded--a wise little feminine nod I knew you had. —  The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
• But the central body of European society is certainly changed; and, after all, between the scum and the dregs is the good soup Such are the changes which have been introduced into social life owing to the interdependence of nations. —  The Unity of Civilization
• There were two for whom he had vainly striven to fill the cup of humiliation and pain which he had been made to drink to the dregs, and now to-morrow they should receive a stab in their very hearts. —  Lost Illusions

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