offscourings
Example Sentences
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There were also present one or two reporters, and a posse of the offscourings of Stoneleigh small-boydom.
From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay
They are the victims of society; they do its dirty work, and are cast away as offscourings.
From The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson
His Vigliacchi, 'wretches who never lived,' because they never felt the pangs or ecstasies of partisanship, wander homeless on the skirts of Limbo, among the abortions and offscourings of creation.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
Our grandfathers—and our fathers, for that matter—had a somewhat acrid conception of humour, and the offscourings of the city ministered to this peculiar humorous sense in a singular way.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman
The offscourings of the Canadian frontier were drifting back into their native country to settle.
From The Barrier by Rex Ellingwood Beach
