He goes out and scours the city, and often ends by bringing back the indispensable crust which keeps death at bay.
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola
The little place is charming when the grasshopper shrills in the summer's elms and the autumn wind scours it, or when the rains streak it.
"Romance of the Rabbit"
Francis Jammes
For all they need is procured for them by Thessala, who searches and scours and purveys for them.
"Four Arthurian Romances "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot""
Chretien DeTroyes