scourings

Example Sentences

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Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when they had scoured the waterfront boardinghouses, Prince shook his head over their scourings.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

And out of the scourings of that vast mass of chalk was our gravel-pit made.

From Scientific Essays and Lectures by Kingsley, Charles

Many people consider that scourings supplementary to these are only due to habit.

From The Crock of Gold by Stephens, James

But it is by him and men like him, and not by the scourings of the galleys, that we can get to understand the spirit of the time.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville