offscourings

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Our grandfathers—and our fathers, for that matter—had a somewhat acrid conception of humour, and the offscourings of the city ministered to this peculiar humorous sense in a singular way.

From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James

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)

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

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

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