offscourings

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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

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 Symonds, John Addington

The "offscourings" of London, which the companies carried rather more to the southward than the northward with us, were hardly scoured off in Whitechapel, which was a decent enough ancestral source for any American strain.

From London Films by Howells, William Dean

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

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 Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty