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For many people, drug dealers and corporate attorneys are the dregs of society.
How many thousands who have drained the voluptuous bowl of pleasure to the dregs have been reclaimed by suffering!
They soaked that clay bread in wine of very old dregs.
They soaked that bread, solid as clay, in very old dregs of wine.
She poured some cold dregs of tea into the two cups.
The dregs of society should be taken to the garbage dump.
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them.
And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth / Throughout the fluid mass; but downward purged / The black tartareous cold infernal dregs
Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.
The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof, / This is the end of every song man sings! / The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain, / Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain
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the dregs of society
I sat through the dregs of a long hectic evening.
If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey.
[…] he said to himself that in the last hour he had sounded the depths of his humiliation and that the lowest dregs of it, the very bottom-slime, was the hateful necessity of having always, as long as the two men lived, to be civil to Barton Flamel.
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