offscourings
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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His Vigliacchi, 'wretches who never lived,' because they never felt the pangs or ecstasies of partisanship, wander homeless on the skirts of Limbo, among the abortions and offscourings of creation.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington
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
Were they not sectaries, fanatics, visionaries, the very offscourings of human nature?
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry
They teach us not by angels—by the fools and offscourings of the earth.’
From A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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
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