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)

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

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

From Hints to Pilgrims by Brooks, Charles Stephen