offscourings

Example Sentences

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There were also present one or two reporters, and a posse of the offscourings of Stoneleigh small-boydom.

From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Hay, Ian

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

All the world had turned to California; its riffraff and offscourings as well as its true men.

From Gold by White, Stewart Edward

Were they not sectaries, fanatics, visionaries, the very offscourings of human nature? 

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry

Though, as if things were not hard enough, Madge and her husband had raised trouble; they did not see why they should receive the offscourings of Howards End.

From Howards End by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)