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Meanings of bitter dregs in English

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Usage of bitter dregs in English
1
That exhilaration does not froth away, leaving bitter dregs in the cup.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter...
2
The Administration had not yet drunk the bitter dregs of the cup of humiliation.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
3
What thoughts still swirled around in the bottom of his mind were bitter dregs.
The skein of lament
4
Must service spring from the bitter dregs of self-denial?
Kenny
5
We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality.
Anansi Boys
6
But it's a cup of joy now, for His drinking drained out all the bitter dregs.
Quiet Talks with World Winners
7
She has risen to the topmost heights, and she has also tasted the bitter dregs of life.
Anarchism and Other Essays
8
This was one of the bitter dregs.
In and out of Three Normandy Inns
9
Do you not know who drank the cup of human suffering to its bitter dregs before you?
Trial and Triumph
10
Did I leave Italy and come hither to drink the bitter dregs in my chalice of life?
The Amulet
11
And that meant that he grew up in a torture-house, he drank a cup of poison to its bitter dregs.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
12
And if this, the beginning of it, were so bad, how was she to drink the cup to the bitter dregs?
The Eustace Diamonds
13
These were then driven into the village, where the mess was poured into the presses, and the wine crushed out to the last bitter dregs.
A Little Swiss Sojourn
14
"It's the effort that counts," Creedmoor explained, and he downed the bitter dregs.
The half-made world
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Bitter dregs across language varieties
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