offscourings
Example Sentences
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The thought of his childhood companions, the little waifs like himself who came from the offscourings of the earth.
From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston
The offscourings of the Canadian frontier were drifting back into their native country to settle.
From The Barrier by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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 Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
Were they not sectaries, fanatics, visionaries, the very offscourings of human nature?
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry
To be disgusted with them, to allow them to disturb our serenity, is as though a painter should sicken at the odour of his pigments and the offscourings of his palette.
From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher
