He was hopeless, yet nerved to go to the last bitter dreg of confession.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
No dregs could git through-not a dreg.
"Samantha at the World's Fair"
Marietta Holley
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.
"Salute to Adventurers"
John Buchan