offscourings
Example Sentences
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All the world had turned to California; its riffraff and offscourings as well as its true men.
From Gold by Stewart Edward White
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 E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Experts and the offscourings of the earth drifted to the great government camp and Jim and all his assistants exercised a constant and rigid sifting process.
From Still Jim by Honoré Morrow
The men were the offscourings of European armies engaged in the Napoleonic wars, and came directly from the old De Meurons' regiment.
From Lords of the North by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
His Vigliacchi, 'wretches who never lived,' because they never felt the pangs or ecstasies of partisanship, wander homeless on the skirts of Limbo, among the abortions and offscourings of creation.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
