offscourings

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The thought of his childhood companions, the little waifs like himself who came from the offscourings of the earth.

From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston

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)

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

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

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