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
They live on offal and the offscourings of the city, and though the Turks freely throw all their refuse into their streets, there are so many dogs that they are all half-starved.
From Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
But the syndicated Press omit to record that only a miserable handful paraded the streets, the offscourings of the city's purlieus, amid the derision of the onlookers.
From Victory out of Ruin by Norman Maclean
