offscourings

Example Sentences

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The offscourings of the Canadian frontier were drifting back into their native country to settle.

From The Barrier by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

They teach us not by angels—by the fools and offscourings of the earth.’

From A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

The place was thronged with the offscourings of Paris, and Hervagault found himself in congenial quarters.

From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

The thought of his childhood companions, the little waifs like himself who came from the offscourings of the earth.

From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston

They are the victims of society; they do its dirty work, and are cast away as offscourings.

From The Child of the Dawn by Benson, Arthur Christopher