offscourings

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They immediately built a theater, which cost them seven thousand dollars, and employed a company of actors, the offscourings of maratime city theaters.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben

They should therefore despise an army which seemed to be composed more of a mass of fickle offscourings than of a firm and stout soldiery.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus

They are the victims of society; they do its dirty work, and are cast away as offscourings.

From The Child of the Dawn by Benson, Arthur Christopher

The common soldiers were considered, and often were, the offscourings of the community.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund

The place was thronged with the offscourings of Paris, and Hervagault found himself in congenial quarters.

From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous