The little park, after the six-o'clock stampede, settled back into a sort of lamplit quiet, dark figures, the dregs of a city day, here and there on its benches.

For it is an ordeal to face powder if you have not a dreg of passion in you, and are resolved to make no return.

Here is nothing to stagger you, nothing to make you mistrust, no suspicion of alloy, no drop or dreg of the worldly or ambitious spirit.

have I in childhood so oft stood poring upon thy mystic charactersthy emblematic supporters, with their prophetic "Resurgam"till, every dreg of peasantry purging off, I received into myself Very Gentility?

while the people, blighted, cursed by superstition, Steeped in ignorance and darkness, taxed and starved, looks up and begs For a little light and freedom, for a little law and justice, That at least the cup so bitter it may drain not to the dregs! Benediction!

The material body of man is overcharged with lusts, which are in it as dregs that precipitate themselves to the bottom when the must of wine is clarified, 272.

Look at the dregs of nations, creeds, religions, fermenting together!

He believes, finally, that he has drained the cup of life to the dregs; that he has known, in its bitterest intensity, every emotion of which the human spirit is capable; that he has loved, struggled, suffered.

The quality of redemptioners varied from the very dregs of society to well-to-do apprentice planters; but the general run was doubtless fairly representative of the English working classes.

The idea of old Nobility enshrined Should thence a grace and a refinement have Which passed these living Nobles to conceive, Who with such apish, base gesticulation, Remnants of starts, and dregs of playhouse passion, So foul belied their great forefathers' fashion!

[150] "There not a dreg of guilt defiles.

none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

Society felt its foundations shake, and the more insecure it felt itself to be the more feverish seemed its desire to enjoy life to the dregs, to seize upon that fleet-footed Pleasure who ever kept ahead of her pursuers.

A beautiful earthworm economy of the last dregs of combustible matter in any kind of refuse can thus be attained.

I remembered now that my affections as well as my passions had drained out of me, leaving scarce anything but a tranquil resignation, a dreg of self-pity.

Going to church does not help them, for it must be an exclusive church and an exclusive pew, under an exclusive pastor who patronizes Jesus Christ but does not sympathize with Him, and who talks about the "dregs of society" as if it were something far removed from the knowledge and consciousness of his hearers.

The worst crimes of the dregs of a civilized population have been introduced; and many of those wretched beings, who might otherwise have been reclaimed from the rude vices of savage life, have, through the white man's instrumentality, perished in sin.

When it flows from the oil mill, amurca is a watery fluid full of dregs.

The woman removed the snuff rag from her gums long enough to drain the dregs, and presto!

who shall deliver me from these dregs of Pelagianism, Arminianism, and Jesuitism, which I find yet within my soul?

11, King James VI., do condemn the monuments and dregs of the bygone idolatry, as going to crosses, observing the festival days of Saints and other superstitious and Papistical rites, to the dishonour of God, contempt of true religion, and fostering of great error among the people; and ordains the users of them to be punished for the second fault as idolaters, Act 104, Parl.

Irish, Dutch, whites, blacks, Moors, old John Bull himself: you can find the dregs of every day of the world in any mill-town of the States.

They are free certainly, but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society; they are free from the chain, the whip, the enforced task and unpaid toil of slavery; but they are not the less under a ban.

But the last word had scarcely hissed past his lips before Müller dashed his coffee dregs full in the stranger's face.

His cup of life had indeed been drained, and he turned away from the dregs.