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 live on offal and the offscourings of the city, and though the Turks freely throw all their refuse into their streets, there are so many dogs that they are all half-starved.

From Miscellanea by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

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 Symonds, John Addington

They immediately built a theater, which cost them seven thousand dollars, and employed a company of actors, the offscourings of maratime city theaters.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben

The common soldiers were considered, and often were, the offscourings of the community.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund