lees

• The man's face is bedaubed with soot and wine-lees, or sometimes covered with a grotesque mask. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852
• It is then racked off its lees, and the produce of black and white grapes is blended together, only a small proportion of the former entering into the composition of true sparkling hock, which should retain in a marked degree the subtile and fragrant perfume of the riesling grape The process pursued in the manufacture of sparkling hocks is the same as that followed with regard to champagnes. —  Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
• Drunken with the world-lees, what can he do but pourtray nature drunken as well, and consumed with the same fever or stupor that consumes himself, making up with gilding and filigree what he lacks in truth and sincerity? —  The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art
• They smeared themselves with wine-lees, colored their bodies black and red, put on masks, covered themselves with the skins of beasts, enacted the parts of nymphs, fauns, and satyrs, those creatures of primitive fancy, half men and half goats, who were the representatives of natural sensuality untrammelled by conventionality Sidenote: Melodrama. —  How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
• For when one drinks too deeply of the cup of tyranny the lees are apt to be like the little book the Revelator ate--sweet as honey in the mouth and bitter in the belly That evening at the supper-table he had one nerve-racking fear dispelled and another confirmed by his mother's reply to a question put by his father Yes; the Major sent for me again this afternoon. —  The Quickening

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