offscourings
Example Sentences
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For it is not merely the offscourings of the streets, but burghers, magistrates, and officials, who have extended a welcome to the Electoral Prince.
From The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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 Grammaticus Saxo
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 William Dean Howells
All the world had turned to California; its riffraff and offscourings as well as its true men.
From Gold by Stewart Edward White
The common soldiers were considered, and often were, the offscourings of the community.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
