offscourings
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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
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 Grammaticus Saxo
For it is not merely the offscourings of the streets, but burghers, magistrates, and officials, who have extended a welcome to the Electoral Prince.
From The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
It was not so easy to fill the empty berth in the forecastle, even from the offscourings of the docks.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
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
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