| The offscourings of prison and dockyards, sent over to work on the plantations before slave labor was introduced. |
| It was not so easy to fill the empty berth in the forecastle, even from the offscourings of the docks. |
| All other nationalities came and went freely, and here was a gathering of the offscourings of the earth. |
| The place was thronged with the offscourings of Paris, and Hervagault found himself in congenial quarters. |
| These offscourings of mankind are to be received into your territory and your cities that you may carry on war. |
| There were also present one or two reporters, and a posse of the offscourings of Stoneleigh small-boydom. |
