offscourings

Example Sentences

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They are the victims of society; they do its dirty work, and are cast away as offscourings.

From The Child of the Dawn by Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

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

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 common soldiers were considered, and often were, the offscourings of the community.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund