| So when the cream is off, the rest of the clergy are plainly but skim milk, the scourings of the seminaries. |
| They do not know, in their pitiable ignorance, the towers and bridges that can be made from the scourings of a washboard factory. |
| No tool marks survive on the surface of the boat as a result of repeated scourings by wind, sand and water. |
| But it is by him and men like him, and not by the scourings of the galleys, that we can get to understand the spirit of the time. |
| 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 out of the scourings of that vast mass of chalk was our gravel-pit made. |
