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

"The scourings of creation, Of every sin and station, The men who've known damnation, Are picked to lead the way."

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

As if by magic the stress of the war wrung out the rinsings and the scourings and left the fabric clean.

From Joy in the Morning by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman

Thus gallantly attended, the queen entered the vanquished frontier of Granada, journeying securely along the pleasant banks of the Xenil, so lately subject to the scourings of the Moors.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington