scourings

A small man dressed in the scourings of the forest eventually came to the Friar's side.

He rose up in a whirlwind, choked with dirt and the scourings of blood.

For the last 6 months, Cathcart ordered scourings of the countryside for rebels.

(A breeze-through in some cases, but in others multiple scourings.)

Kaficho and Galla they were, the off scourings of their tribes, outlaws, men with prices upon their heads.

They remind me of the strange pink patina acquired by mid-century navy blue American sedans after too many harsh scourings and hours in the sun.

And, Hugh, they have an army within there, the scourings of God knows how wide a swathe of middle England, labor in plenty.

After analysing various scourings, he focused on the 1868 renovation, opposed by the local vicar, believing it might corrupt local morals.

The stallion covered me with his scourings, though my Spadix-eyes white with fear, all four legs poking out stiffly-did not succumb.

Not just the scourings for Witted ones, but the revenge the Witted wreak in turn on their tormentors.

Catriana's breath came in ragged scourings of air and her right side ached; she must have crashed into something in her wild careen.

Phelinndar even felt the Spellmaster plucking at the Dwaerwhich rose and flickered in the baron's graspto power greater scourings.

Here, the beverage of choice is birra (beer), and paco-an accessible and lethal drug made from the very last scourings of cocaine-is widely consumed.

Despite attempts to stem the hole using sandbags, the surface water flowed in and flooded large areas of the mine, causing extensive damage by washaways and scourings.

On the eastern horizon were coral heads worn to mushroom shapes by the currents that deposited their scourings here to form the shore on which the trireme rested.

Of course, you must expect that, as long as you run with Ilse Burnley and off- scourings of the gutter like Perry Miller.

Ann hefted one after another of them, thinking about how many years their planed sides represented, wondering whether her mind might not reveal similar scourings, big sections worn flat by time.

For the purposes of heading 38.25, "sewage sludge" means sludge arising from urban effluent treatment plant and includes pre-treatment waste, scourings and unstabilised sludge.

While never having met the man in person, Peart immediately recognized Temporal Investigations Special Agent Dulmer from his required scourings of department communiques and classified files.

Though most of the drift was simply a clotted mass of incoherent forms, like the scourings of an enormous drain, there were several tree branches amongst the garbled mass.

Emerson Police Chief Michael Saudino said "shoulder-to-shoulder" scourings Tuesday of Emerson locales turned up no signs of Liza Murphy.

- and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!

Many of them were the scourings of the jails, and they began to be even more vile than before, burning houses, torturing people, and retaliating against the civilian population in every way they could.

Experience has evinced, and is evincing daily, that men of savage hearts, and savage deeds, may be generated from the off scourings of civilization, no less than amidst the barrenness of the desert.

He carried his head low, snuffling at the earth for offal and scourings, but when the scent came down on the wind to him, he lifted his head on high and flared his deformed nostrils.