scourings
Example Sentences
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Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when they had scoured the waterfront boardinghouses, Prince shook his head over their scourings.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Near the bridge, on the rocks is plain evidence of glacial scourings.
From Out of Doors—California and Oregon by J. A. Graves
And out of the scourings of that vast mass of chalk was our gravel-pit made.
From Scientific Essays and Lectures by Charles Kingsley
It is not, therefore, as though great age were such a catch that it should demand all these delicate manipulations of diet, sleep, rest-cures, health-resorts, scourings, and temperatures, for its attainment.
From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson
