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Example sentences for "outcasts"

Lexicographically close words:
outburst; outbursts; outcast; outcaste; outcastes; outclass; outclassed; outcome; outcomes; outcries
  1. At the other extreme stand those characters in which the art of Dickens, always in union with the promptings of his moral nature, illustrates the mitigating or redeeming qualities observable even in the outcasts of our civilisation.

  2. Yet--with the exception of such isolated passages--the figure of Jo is in truth one of the most powerful protests that have been put forward on behalf of the friendless outcasts of our streets.

  3. We can imagine a double curtain for The Outcasts of Poker Flat: the first tableau showing the two dead women in the snow, the second the inscription over the body of Oakhurst, the gambler.

  4. One finds it in The Outcasts of Poker Flat: A few of the committee had urged hanging him [Oakhurst] as a possible example, and a sure method of reimbursing themselves from his pockets of the sums he had won from them.

  5. That they were social outcasts did not matter.

  6. Cuzco, they said, undoubtedly fell within the limits of his government, and it was better to take possession of its comfortable quarters than to wander like outcasts in this dreary wilderness.

  7. On considering the criminal laws of the time, it would also appear that not a few of the outcasts of society, also, had found their way to New England.

  8. There is no doubt that strong measures were necessary to curb the furious and profane absurdities of many of the seceders, who were the very outcasts of religion.

  9. We entered it at noon; few inhabitants had remained; and none were seen in the deserted streets but a few felons who had left the jails, and some wretched outcasts of the other sex.

  10. They are sought by outcasts like him and me.

  11. Could this be that wild wanderer who had accosted me in the park, and met me on the bridge when all but the outcasts of society were at home?

  12. If they are denounced as outcasts, such outcasts are the ornaments of the country.

  13. Numbers of outcasts abandon their homes and wander about till death.

  14. The malefactors who replenish our jails are the outcasts of society, and the crimes for which they suffer may be commonly ascribed to ignorance, poverty, and brutal appetite.

  15. The outcasts of every family were adopted without reproach as the children of the state.

  16. The third day came, and the sun, looking through the white- curtained valley, saw the outcasts divide their slowly decreasing store of provisions for the morning meal.

  17. And, pulseless and cold, with a Derringer by his side and a bullet in his heart, though still calm as in life, beneath the snow lay he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat.

  18. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

  19. Here you behold an ensign to be reared for the nations; not only for the dispersed of Judah, but the outcasts of Israel.

  20. We outcasts of the prairie and the camp fire and the streets had been greatly divorced from feminine sweet influences, and these succeeded where speech and prayer and song had failed.

  21. And the outcasts have ten times the excuse for their moral blindness and their social misdeeds that their well-fed competitors in iniquity ever had.

  22. Only mixed levies, partial, raised by money, most of them even without occupation, outcasts and unable to withstand the enemy.

  23. A fresh impetus was given to spiritual provision for outcasts by the Lateran Council of 1179.

  24. Thirdly, it is evident from the gifts of charitable persons that there were still many outcasts in need of assistance.

  25. Doubtless this may be partly attributed to the fact that at the outset of his reign the Church secured privileges to outcasts by the Council of Westminster (1200).

  26. But so surely as the dead of night set in, so surely this man was in the midst of the loose concourse in the night-cellar where outcasts of every grade resorted; and there he sat till morning.

  27. The outcasts of every family were adopted without reproach as the children of the State.

  28. They may be outcasts from the village, afflicted either by disease or madness, or they may be members of some dark superstition.

  29. Outcasts they were, of many tribes, living together without a chief; but the place was fat, and they grew fat, being without spirit.

  30. Jehovah God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, yet will I gather others to him beside those that are gathered to him.

  31. The third day came, and the sun, looking through the white-curtained valley, saw the outcasts divide their slowly decreasing store of provisions for the morning meal.

  32. Surely you do not suspect--you cannot suppose--setting aside all fear of God, think you she could make outcasts of her children!

  33. Would you have people to look at me as they do at the very outcasts of womankind,--some with pity, some with scorn?

  34. Spain in 1783, took measures for the education of these poor outcasts in the habits of a civilised life with very encouraging results.

  35. By securing the registration of canal-boats as human domiciles, he has brought quite a host of poor little outcasts within the pale of society and the beneficent influence of the various educational machineries of the age.

  36. Elizabeth, down to the present time, nothing has been done by law to reclaim these Indian outcasts and Asiatic emigrants.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outcasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    disadvantaged; dregs; outcast; poor; rabble