offscourings
Example Sentences
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The men were the offscourings of European armies engaged in the Napoleonic wars, and came directly from the old De Meurons' regiment.
From Lords of the North by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
All the world had turned to California; its riffraff and offscourings as well as its true men.
From Gold by Stewart Edward White
Were they not sectaries, fanatics, visionaries, the very offscourings of human nature?
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by George Henry Borrow
They are the victims of society; they do its dirty work, and are cast away as offscourings.
From The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson
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 Arthur Christopher Benson
