offscourings

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Though, as if things were not hard enough, Madge and her husband had raised trouble; they did not see why they should receive the offscourings of Howards End.�

From Howards End by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

Experts and the offscourings of the earth drifted to the great government camp and Jim and all his assistants exercised a constant and rigid sifting process.

From Still Jim by Morrow, Honoré

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

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

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

The men were the offscourings of European armies engaged in the Napoleonic wars, and came directly from the old De Meurons' regiment.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)