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scourings

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scour·ings  (skourngz)
pl.n.
1. The refuse that remains after scouring grain.
2. Dregs; scum.

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Nor can one express the love with which he would be received in all those provinces which have suffered so much from these foreign scourings, with what thirst for revenge, with what stubborn faith, with what devotion, with what tears.
Most of the gilding was worn off by the frequent scourings which it had undergone beneath the hands of a black slave.
The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone connected her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child.
 
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