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

They were washed-down, melted, stripped of earth and vegetation; and down from their flanks in a steep, even slope, lay the d�bris and scourings of centuries.

From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane

They do not know, in their pitiable ignorance, the towers and bridges that can be made from the scourings of a washboard factory.

From Hints to Pilgrims by Brooks, Charles Stephen

It is not, therefore, as though great age were such a catch that it should demand all these delicate manipulations of diet, sleep, rest-cures, health-resorts, scourings, and temperatures, for its attainment.

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.