In Great Britain, the off-scourings of the earth can say who they are, and no prejudices are entertained against them.
To gratify their own prejudices, people would degrade the illustrious dreamer, from being this great original, into being the off-scourings of all England.
The band that we see yonder is but the off-scourings of half a dozen troops," said he, "and chance riders that Cannon of Mardrochat has gathered.
We've got the off-scourings of every nation and most of the saloons of Mexico City working for us.
Come here, Christabel, and don't pay any attention to the off-scourings of the Irish bogs.
We may be great colonists we Britons, but I fear our stocking Burmah with scourings from India is only great as an evil.
The inhabitants of Port Said, we are told, represent the scourings of the Levant; too bad for Cairo, and black-balled for Hell.
And who but such a man would appear publicly as an advocate for the importation of felons, the scourings of jails, and the abandoned outcasts of the British nation, as a mode in any sort eligible for peopling a young country?
In this stifling atmosphere might be encountered some of the off-scourings of Continental cities.
Some people say it smells of rotten eggs, and others compare it to the scourings of a foul gun.
The re-appearance of Greene and his army in North Carolina, heralded by the scourings of Lee and Pickens, disconcerted the schemes of Lord Cornwallis.
Flung down among vilyans and mallyfactors, and the very off-scourings of creation, in the penitenchery!
To see Miss Ellie's baby jailed, among the off-scourings of the earth!
