Dregs Sentence Examples

Our final visit was to a particularly dingy part of the dregs of the city.

They are descendants of feudal days when the mercantile element, being counted as the dregs of the population, lost its self-respect.

He will consume the cup to the bitter dregs.

Mr Laver, Oxford use the dregs of the teapot to water house plants as they will benefit from the fermenting tea leaves.

The sediment in wine is also known as the dregs.

Decanting allows you to separate the dregs from the clear liquid.

But the appetite for power of the "less people" and the dregs of the populace was whetted rather than satisfied by the installation of the riformatori in the principal posts of authority.

In the war with Pisa he had observed the insubordination and untrustworthiness of soldiers gathered from the dregs of different districts, serving under egotistical and irresponsible commanders.

From this contact came Ialdabaoth the Demiurgos, who in turn produced six powers and with them created the seven heavens and from the dregs of matter the Nous of serpent form, from whom are spirit and soul, evil and death.

The net result was that a few years later the lower house of convocation only rejected by one vote a very puritanical petition against vestments and other popish dregs.

As Harry drains the last dregs from the bottle outside a hospital an ambulance draws in.

Or look at yon fallen woman drinking the dregs of her bitter, damning cup!

It doesn't help that I still have the dregs of flu inside me, and my leg has been playing up recently.

I'm still here, the last dregs of BP haven't gone yet.

I sat there under the trees sipping the last dregs of Bollinger, cursing myself for not having put a tenner on.

The society of the Sanfedisti, formed of the dregs of the populace, whose object was to murder every Liberal, was openly protected and encouraged.

Moreover, while many strikes were quite orderly, the turbulent character of a part of the Italian people and their hatred of authority often converted peaceful demands for better conditions into dangerous riots, in which the dregs of the urban population (known as teppisti or the mala vita) joined.

This preposterous proposal was of course not even discussed, and the movement caused a strong feeling of reaction against Socialism and of hostility to the government for its weakness; for, however much sympathy there might be with the genuine grievances of the working classes, the September strikes were of a frankly revolutionary character and had been fomented by professional agitators and kept going by the dregs of the people.

When King Ferdinand felt himself securely re-established at Naples he determined to exterminate the Carbonari, and to this end his minister of police, the prince of Canosa, set up another secret society called the Calderai del Contrappeso (braziers of the counterpoise), recruited from the brigands and the dregs of the people, who committed hideous excesses against supposed Liberals, but failed to exterminate the movement.

Though the Brahman, who by this time had firmly secured his supremacy over the kshatriya, or noble, in matters spiritual as well as in legislative and administrative functions, would naturally be the prime mover in this regulation of the social 4 Thus, in Berar," there is a strong non-Aryan leaven in the dregs of the agricultural class, derived from the primitive races which have gradually melted down into settled life, and thus become fused with the general community, while these same races are still distinct tribes in the wild tracts of hill and jungle."Sir Alfred C. Lyall, As.

It was through Neoplatonism that Augustine got rid of scepticism and the last dregs of Manichaeism.