offscourings

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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

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

From Gold by White, Stewart Edward

To be disgusted with them, to allow them to disturb our serenity, is as though a painter should sicken at the odour of his pigments and the offscourings of his palette.

From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher

They should therefore despise an army which seemed to be composed more of a mass of fickle offscourings than of a firm and stout soldiery.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus

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