offscourings

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Were they not sectaries, fanatics, visionaries, the very offscourings of human nature? 

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry

They teach us not by angels—by the fools and offscourings of the earth.’

From A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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 Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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

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