offscourings

Example Sentences

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The place was thronged with the offscourings of Paris, and Hervagault found himself in congenial quarters.

From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

All the world had turned to California; its riffraff and offscourings as well as its true men.

From Gold by White, Stewart Edward

There were also present one or two reporters, and a posse of the offscourings of Stoneleigh small-boydom.

From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Hay, Ian

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

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