offscourings

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The "offscourings" of London, which the companies carried rather more to the southward than the northward with us, were hardly scoured off in Whitechapel, which was a decent enough ancestral source for any American strain.

From London Films by Howells, William Dean

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)

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

But the syndicated Press omit to record that only a miserable handful paraded the streets, the offscourings of the city's purlieus, amid the derision of the onlookers.

From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman

In all probability, therefore, the ḫabati were wandering hordes differing from the Sutites in not having any special nationality, and being composed of the offscourings of many peoples of the ancient East.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge