tea-dregs

The baby rolled up and down among the tea-dregs and the cat leaped from a cardboard box on to a suitcase.

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

At Sam's elbow was a cup with tea-dregs in the bottom.

The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911

John and Ellen, those strange, gruff beings, came in to wash up, carrying that horrible, steaming can of tea-dregs in which our cups were plunged: they cleared the table as we sate; it was over before six, and it was not till the prayer-bell rang at 9.30 that we became aware we had sate the whole evening with the table between us.

The Upton Letters Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Divination by the stars holds no higher position than palmistry, fortune-telling by cards, or the indications of the future which foolish persons find in dreams, tea-dregs, salt-spilling, and other absurdities.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

_why_ they believe, they answer readily enough either that they themselves or their friends have known remarkable fulfilments of the ominous indications of cards or tea-dregs, which must of necessity be the case where millions of forecasts are daily made by these instructive methods.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862