"Offscouring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a degrading thing it is to be scoffed at by our superiors! How prone we are to resent it when our equals meet us with a sneer! But when the offscouring of society, the reptiles that we could have trodden under foot, may rail at and scorn us with impunity, how doubly bitter, how perfectly insupportable must it be! The very ministers of evil scouted him, and sin and misery thought him too ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall
... of opinion, that, if his Majesty had kept aloof from that wash and offscouring of everything that is low and barbarous in the world, it might be well thought unworthy of his dignity to take notice of such scurrilities: they must be considered as much the natural expression of that kind of animal as it is the expression of the feelings ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... mitigation of an earlier custom of flinging the scapegoat into the sea to drown. The Leucadian ceremony took place at the time of a sacrifice to Apollo, who had a temple or sanctuary on the spot. Elsewhere it was customary to cast a young man every year into the sea, with the prayer, "Be thou our offscouring." This ceremony was supposed to rid the people of the evils by which they were beset, or according to a somewhat different interpretation it redeemed them by paying the debt they owed to the sea-god. As practised by the Greeks of Asia Minor ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... To all thy goats the water nymphs beside. But bathe not in't when full of drunken cheer, Lest the mere vapour may bring thee to bane; Shun my vine-hating spring—Melampus here From madness once washed Proetus' daughters sane, And all th' offscouring here did hide, when they From Argos ...
— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius
... unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; (12)and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; (13)being defamed, we entreat; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various |
