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

She carefully measured out half a pint of the unsavory fluid—the dregs of the casks and the scourings of the ledge.

From The Wings of the Morning by Tracy, Louis

But it is by him and men like him, and not by the scourings of the galleys, that we can get to understand the spirit of the time.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville

But the Louvre was close at hand, almost within earshot on one side, the Châtelet was scarcely farther off on the other; and both swarmed with soldiers and the armed scourings of the streets.

From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John