offscourings

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Experts and the offscourings of the earth drifted to the great government camp and Jim and all his assistants exercised a constant and rigid sifting process.

From Still Jim by Morrow, Honoré

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

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 Howells, William Dean

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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