offscourings

Example Sentences

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The offscourings of the Canadian frontier were drifting back into their native country to settle.

From The Barrier by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

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

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 Saxo, Grammaticus

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)

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)