Actual "settlings" were the dregs of humanity.

Surely you have heard"he paused to drain the dregs in his glass"the rest?" I eyed him for a moment in silence before I answered, but he met my glance fairly, indulging apparently in the same curiosity, half idle, half cynical, that he might have displayed before some episode of the theatre.

" "Do you not know who drank the cup of human suffering to its bitter dregs before you?

He saw now that it had brimmed over indeed: brimmed to the extent of leaving the cup empty, or at least of uncovering the dregs beneath the nectar.

Thick dregs from the goblet splashed on the tiles.

Son of pig," and flipped the dregs into the Gascon's face.

No man drinks the bitter cup of poverty to the dregs like the declining farmer.

Suddenly she could no more: memories unspeakable rose like disturbed dregs to the surface of her consciousness.

One fellow said he knew this was the Creator's dumping place where he had left the worthless dregs after making a world, and the devil had scraped these together a little.

But why exhaust life's rapid bowl, And suck the dregs with sorrow foul, When long ere this my youth has drain'd Whatever zest the cup contain'd?

I'll drink the dregs at the bottom of the cup, but first let me taste the sweet!"