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

The "offscourings" of London, which the companies carried rather more to the southward than the northward with us, were hardly scoured off in Whitechapel, which was a decent enough ancestral source for any American strain.

From London Films by Howells, William Dean

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

They immediately built a theater, which cost them seven thousand dollars, and employed a company of actors, the offscourings of maratime city theaters.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben

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