scourings

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They do not know, in their pitiable ignorance, the towers and bridges that can be made from the scourings of a washboard factory.

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With a soldier’s eye he was scrutinising these military vagabonds, supposed to be of Arab race, but whom he knew to be the scourings of the Parisian streets, disguised under the turbans of the Mohammed.

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The re-appearance of Greene and his army in North Carolina, heralded by the scourings of Lee and Pickens, disconcerted the schemes of Lord Cornwallis.

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The three were manifestly no soldiers—that I could see at once—but just the scourings of the Dumfries stables, that had taken to the informer's trade.

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They were washed-down, melted, stripped of earth and vegetation; and down from their flanks in a steep, even slope, lay the d�bris and scourings of centuries.

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