How To Use Scotch In A Sentence

  • He noticed the Scotch on a tabouret and a cigar box near a chromium smoking stand. What Would Philip Marlowe Do
  • As I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Sole Music
  • After an hour on the train I felt more like a large scotch. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's more approachable than Scotch, and more mixable.
  • Throwing my heart monitor out the window I plumped (no pun intended) for the dessert of fresh profiteroles served with butterscotch sauce.
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  • However, a recent article scotches this by putting the position of UK manufacturing in context.
  • Here, as we have seen, their ruler was the pro-Roman queen, Cartimandua whose seat may have been at Stanwick, near Scotch Corner.
  • #47/December 2, 2009/4: 18 min. Jay Goldman, also known as his butterscotch alter-ego, the daring Mr. Mobile, dares you to gaze upon these Butterscotch.com: Newest Episodes
  • WHEN I was a youngster I used to be quite a superstitious sort of person -- I suppose because I had a nurse till I was rather large, who was the sort of Scotchwoman which believes in fairies and red devils and those things. The Lake of Devils
  • It is the word magnus; the Scotchman makes of it his mac, which designates the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the great Callumore [41]; slang turns it into meck and later le meg, that is to say, God. Les Misérables
  • And even when the songs hopscotched over musical logic, they scanned, because - analysis fails here - they sounded so gorgeous.
  • The resulting light, crunchy morsels are often enhanced by coating with toffee or butterscotch; or eaten with salt.
  • `scotch' is used only informally
  • The joys were in simple games - hopscotch, hide-and-go-seek, tag, etc.
  • He fumbled with the lock on the door to his apartment, looking forward to a stiff shot of single-malt Scotch before fixing dinner.
  • This gambit nevertheless breaks the ice, and they begin by discussing the merits of various brands of scotch.
  • The government should have scotched this one immediately or announced the appointment.
  • Then a woman called Jenny McPherson, who had in early life, like "a good Scotch louse," who "aye travels south," found her way from Lochaber to London, where she had got into George's kitchen, and learned something better than to make sour kraut, was the individual who administered to her master's epicureanism, if not gulosity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
  • In the old Scotch-Irish warrior tradition, Jackson regarded political opponents as mortal enemies to be crushed, if possible.
  • At night, luxuriate at charming inns, sampling Scotch whisky.
  • It helps to have lots of vodka, gin, scotch, brandy, and cognac for all to swill down.
  • We are not told that they are Scotch, endowed though they undoubtedly are with some of the canny and thrifty characteristics of the dwellers ayont the Tweed. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
  • I don't know what I was thinking when I gathered up provisions for the gathering; I seem to have assumed everyone would have one bottle of wine apiece then turn to the scotch with thirst unslakable.
  • I did my part to express solidarity with my partygoers by drinking the same cheap scotch I expected them to drink.
  • ‘The Scots see the smoky taste of Scotch as an attraction but I think it masks the flavour of the whiskey,’ she said
  • It looked like it could have been held together with tacky glue and scotch tape.
  • If you like, you can finish it with crumbled amaretti biscuits, sticks of shortbread, and of course, your butterscotch sauce.
  • Danged if our country down here is worth singing about like that!" continued the glazier, as the Scotchman again melodized with a dying fall, "My ain countree! The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Remove the thyme stalks, scotch bonnet and spring onion before serving. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, with a bottle of scotch as old as I was in hand, I went over to Grandpa's house for a conversation and a probable tongue lashing from the sarge.
  • Pointing to a drawing of the old Scotch bawbee, Professor Geddes said it was not a very dignified symbol of the coinage of the world, but let them mark how it had on the one side the hammerman at his work, with his motto "_Beat deus artem_," and, on the other side, a larger legend, with the eagle of the empire and the lamb of Saint John. Civics: as Applied Sociology
  • The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
  • Beer and rum, including a fairly raw variety known as aguardiente are the most popular alcoholic drinks, although urban elites prefer Scotch whisky.
  • It tasted tangy and strangely sweet, like butterscotch, and caused my normally reserved mother to whisper quiet ululations as she picked at it with her spoon.
  • The US quickly stepped in to scotch any such plan.
  • Meat labelled "Scotch Beef" sells for a premium in supermarkets.
  • The move aims to scotch public fears that infection numbers are being covered up. Times, Sunday Times
  • A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
  • And they're just scotch-drinking, cigarette-smoking chauvinists who have to deal with this very capable female journalist, and they don't know what to do.
  • The story hopscotched over to Bernard Weinraub, who covers Hollywood for The New York Times.
  • What better a way to spend a cold winter night than in front of the computer with a bottle of Scotch and box of Kleenex writing gushing adieus to those you love?
  • Moreover, Mr. Singh runs a coalition government that has seen major economic initiatives scotched by nettlesome allies. Indian Premier Tries to Revive Fortunes Amid Hurdles
  • She also incarnates expatriate women, like Hooda, living in exile in London and perpetually nursing her Scotch, and the American woman watching CNN in dismay.
  • Shopping for men used to be easy, a nice tie, a good bottle of Scotch, an electric razor and you were sorted.
  • The interview was supplemented with several rounds of scotch.
  • At first wine was served by the black servants to those that drank it, though all quickly shifted back to Scotch and soda, pickling their food as they ate it, ere it went into their calcined, pickled stomachs. A GOBOTO NIGHT
  • There were food riots in several of the Scotch towns, and in Glasgow the multitude assembled, and then commenced what they called a begging tour, but which was really a progress of not disguised intimidation. Endymion
  • What's the objection to Scotch tape?
  • But there are records of Antony which represent him as a far more genial and human personage; full of a knowledge of human nature, and of a tenderness and sympathy, which account for his undoubted power over the minds of men; and showing, too, at times, a certain covert and "pawky" humour which puts us in mind, as does the humour of many of the Egyptian hermits, of the old-fashioned Scotch. The Hermits
  • His Scotch estates were confiscated, and his title attained ” the attainder of the earldom was not reversed until 1824. Lady Mary Wortley Montague
  • More traditional grub, such as a cheese and onion pasty or Scotch egg, follows in the evening.
  • One visitor to a black tavern in the Five Points heard a hybrid music: “In the Negro melodies you catch a strain of what has been metamorphosed from such Scotch or Irish tune, into somewhat of a chiming jiggish air.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • Try the Scotch eggs with local chutney, followed by salmon and crab fishcakes. The Sun
  • While Howard mixes Scotch and sodas, Rupert fills a syringe from a vial of aminophylline he has taken from its place behind a gelatin salad mold in the refrigerator. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  • That the writings of Mr. Boole and myself "go to the full justification of" this "principle," is only true in the sense in which the Scotch use, or did use, the word _justification_. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
  • Com, categorised responsibly that it has wide astronautical kansas city mortgage for the platyrhinian digitisation and flippant mallon dysarthria of its autosemantic scotchman flatbrod trajan. Rational Review
  • A correction factor was then applied, as before, to gross up for the entire Scotch Whisky industry.
  • He would willingly raid into the Scotch lowlands; but his courage failed him at the border, and he regarded England as a perilous, unhomely land. Memories and Portraits
  • Scotchwoman: “She supposed all her sisters, and she had half-a-dozen, might have been hanged, without any one sending her a present of a pocket handkerchief.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • If it's raining lightly, go out for a game of mud-puddle hopscotch.
  • Their father had advised Bubba and Scotch about verbal harassment during plebe year.
  • But once the oaks die, grasses and exotics, like Scotch broom, will seed in aggressively, provoking a hotter flame.
  • Mr. Ruskin bade men "go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning, _rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing_;" and Mr. Hamerton was literally obeying him when he exiled himself for five years in a hut on an island in a bleak Scotch lake to learn faithfully to portray the shores of that single lake. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
  • The youth, however, had a wild and irreclaimable propensity to dissipation, which finally sent him to serve in the corps long maintained in the service of the States of Holland, and called the Scotch Dutch. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • The high command had decided to launch the invasion on the 5th of June, but bad weather had scotched that date.
  • Escalating financial demands by the company's mainland partner scotched the deal when the price to maintain the relationship quickly went up eightfold despite earlier agreements.
  • For others, isolated in Appalachia or the rural South, hard times during the Great Depression brought scores of Scotch-Irish to the factories of Detroit and Chicago, where they labored in the auto plants and stockyards.
  • Heaven Hill markets more than 50 labels of bourbon, rye, scotch, vodka, gin, tequila, rum, cognac, wines and cordials.
  • The US scotched repeated attempts at the UN to establish a peacekeeping force on the ground in the Territories.
  • That minister had himself gone the length of petitioning the Scotch Privy Council for a birth-brieve, or certificate, to attest his descent from the Castlehill family, and the petition was refused through the influence of the Duke of Lauderdale. Life of Adam Smith
  • Finlay quotes her remark: ‘Scotch air, Scotch people, Scotch hills, Scotch rivers, Scotch woods are all preferable to those of any other nation in the world.’
  • I remember one, a calcined Scotchman from the New Hebrides. THE PRINCESS
  • Family ties superimposed on clan clannishness, which is the blood heritage of the Highland Scotch, made it impossible for him to feel otherwise. Poor Man's Rock
  • Scotchman is silent upon the subject of "vivers," and wisely talks not of either "crowdy" or barley meal, but tells of the time when he was a sitter in the kirk of the Rev. Peter Poundtext, showing his Christian charity by the most profound contempt as well for the ordinances of the Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
  • Leyburn points out that since the Scotch-Irish were never a "minority," in the sense that their values differed radically from the norms of their areas of settlement, they never suffered the normlessness which Durkheim calls anomie -- the absence of clear standards to follow. The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography
  • Glenlivet and her daughters received the intelligence that the only son of the house was about to bring an English bride to the grey old Scotch mansion where so many generations of his "forbears" had lived and died. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
  • Here is our drink list. We've got Scotch, Premium Scotch, Irish Whiskey, Canadian Whiskey and Japanese Whiskey. Which one would you prefer?
  • Why, a Scotch sort of a gentleman, as I said before," returned mine host; "they are all gentle, ye mun know, though they ha 'narra shirt to back; but this is a decentish hallion -- a canny North Briton as e'er cross'd Berwick Bridge -- I trow he's a dealer in cattle. Rob Roy — Volume 01
  • After shaking a bottle of Scotch, the length of time the surface bubbles survive is proportional to the proof. Times, Sunday Times
  • A short steep-up grass hill behind was crowned with a few Scotch firs, and in front, an old orchard of apple trees, just breaking into flower, stretched down to a stream and Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
  • The aunt is a well-drawn type of old-fashioned Scotchwoman, infinitely more natural and more interesting than the niece. Robert Louis Stevenson
  • After shaking a bottle of Scotch, the length of time the surface bubbles survive is proportional to the proof. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rick Perry hopscotched across Texas on Wednesday to sign ceremonial copies of a new workers' compensation bill.
  • Six of Edmonton's most scrumptious purveyors of comestibles along with a dessert and scotch supplier will donate some of their best wares to the event.
  • It was because of this settlement that my original article was eventually scotched - there being no further story to write.
  • Like Smith, he recognized that quality in her they each called "gameness," and even more than Smith he appreciated the commingling of Scotch shrewdness and Indian craft. 'Me--Smith'
  • Her remarks were intended to scotch rumours of an imminent election date.
  • Spend nights exaggerating your catch over Scotch and bunking in vintage 1920s Pullman cars.
  • March 22, 2008 at 2:17 pm ohia billy, eye wont hold the scotch, it wuld be berry messie. eye jus leave it in bottle. heres ur water. Keep friends close, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The English army then, to distinguish themselves, assumed a black rosette on their hats; which, from its position, the Scotch nick-named a "cock'ade" (with which our use of the word "cockscomb" is connected) and is still retained. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851
  • I am the Sullivan that trumpeting tramp, from Suffering Duf-ferin the Sit of her Style, from Kathleen May Vernon her Mebbe fair efforts, from Fillthepot Curran his scotchlove machree-ther, from hymn Op. Finnegans Wake
  • In a seamless division of labor, the mothers would traipse up and down the stairs and in and out of elevators with the children, while the dads would encamp in the living room sampling single-malt scotch. Suburban Tricks, Urban Treats
  • Where a disgust, or, as the Scotch call it, a "scunner," is taken at any food, especially with children, they should never be forced to eat it. Papers on Health
  • Children play hide-and-seek, hopscotch, round dances, and marbles.
  • History teaches us that unless these pernicious tendencies are scotched, they grow to become unmanageable monsters later on.
  • Margot essayed one Scotch air after another, and was instructed in the proper pronunciation of the words; feigning, it is to be feared, an extra amount of incapacity to pronounce the soft "ch," for the sake of giving her patient a better opportunity of displaying his superior adroitness. Big Game A Story for Girls
  • I prefer the “mast of some great ammiral,” with all its tackle, to the Scotch fir or the alpine tannen; and think that more poetry has been made out of it. Life of Lord Byron
  • After school, we played hop-scotch and double-dutch jump rope, and roller-skated and biked for hours. Alice Korngold: 'This Is Alice Korngold, She's an Activist'
  • The Scotchman was the best supported, for his manners were pleasing, and his willingness to oblige infinite. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • [Footnote 4: The Scotch _warsle_ would be perfect.] Rampolli
  • Every Colombian city has a sleazy shopping district called a San Andresito where you can pick up a bottle of Scotch without paying those pesky import duties that double the price.
  • Throughout the show, he finds constant excuses to swig Special Brew and bottles of scotch, even using spirits miniatures as puppets in a retelling of Goldilocks.
  • The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language. Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
  • It is made generally of the flour of the sarrasin or buckwheat, mixed with milk or water, and spread into a kind of pancake, which is fried on an iron pan, resembling the Scotch griddle-cakes. Brittany & Its Byways
  • It looks like the playing field has evolved into a mine field, and the big boys encourage the new kids to play hopscotch there.
  • Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie - leekie, high cheekbones, or rowanberry jam. Lost Leaders
  • Her remarks were intended to scotch rumours of an imminent election date.
  • I vividly recall the rich aroma of warm treacle scones, the sight of Scotch pancakes being flipped over, the taste of sticky jam tarts and the crunch of sugar-topped shortbread.
  • The irascible Irishman replied that a Scotchman was the incarnation of impudence -- and hereupon a war of words ensued, until the officers 'attention was attracted and brought it to an abrupt conclusion. Six Years in the Prisons of England
  • Dunnes Stores will operate a supermarket and department store at the Scotch Hall complex, which will have 60 other shops and two further anchor tenants.
  • His arrival in the capital scotched reports that he was dead.
  • The old charisma is back and all those rumours of flab injections can be scotched once and for all - until the next time.
  • at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children
  • You could not take up a newspaper, English, Scotch, or Irish, without finding in it one or more references to the "vest-pocket million-pounder" and his latest doings and saying.
  • The honest captain had caught this word from a recent treatise against agrarianism, and having an acquired taste for orders in one sense, at least, he flattered himself with being what is called a Conservative, in other words, he had a strong relish for that maxim of the Scotch freebooter, which is rendered into English by the comely aphorism of "keep what you've got, and get what you can. Homeward Bound or, the Chase
  • So today I wanted to try making "butterscotch" divinity. The Divinity Chronicles
  • For show-and-tell in second grade, he whipped up a chef's salad; he concocts novel cookie recipes with chocolate, coconut, butterscotch and pecans.
  • What I wanted was a hot Scotch and a hot chop and hot potatoes -- everything _hot_. At Home with the Jardines
  • Byron avenged himself in 1809 with his satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
  • Developments are hopscotching out to the cheapest land.
  • Examples: 1. ( One snippet from a recent" intimate portrait" of the first lady: Mr Bush likes to spend his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles, one of which shows the face of his Scotch terrier, Barney.
  • It shows us the Gorbals, when children still played hop-scotch in the streets and horse-drawn carts collected scrap metal.
  • Hell, one can always argue that the smokey flavor of scotch is due to polycyclic aromatics that can be “associated” with some desease or another. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Oft-Missed Component When Evaluating European Socialized Health Care
  • They need to ride their bikes and play hopscotch or just sit around with a few buddies playing video games or watching movies.
  • Judge had three or four track-hounds, and four of which he called swift-hounds, the latter including one pure-bred greyhound bitch of wonderful speed and temper, a dun-colored yelping animal which was a cross between a greyhound and a fox-hound, and two others that were crosses between a greyhound and a wire-haired Scotch deer-hound. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
  • In London it meant a new vogue for Scotch whisky and soda. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • Tales were told of playing hopscotch, tig and gerallies, of home births, courting and marriages.
  • Scotchmen; but that did not prevent him demanding of the Regent far more than mere neutrality or 'indifferency' between the contending parties. John Knox
  • A simple box of sidewalk chalk will bring out your child's inner artist and may also be used to draw those old-fashioned games like hopscotch, four-square and Tic Tac Toe. Darell Hammond: Back to Basics for the Holidays
  • Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of. Watershed
  • Had he been born fifty years later, Andrew Carnegie, the poor Scotch boy, might have risen to be president of his union, or of a federation of unions; but that he would never have become the builder of Homestead and the founder of multitudinous libraries, is as certain as it is certain that some other man would have developed the steel industry had Andrew Carnegie never been born. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
  • She raised her lips and eyebrows in a coy pout that I couldn't resist, so I broke all known social convention and filled her martini glass with scotch.
  • From Oswestry he went to Donnington near Shrewsbury, where under a certain Scotchman named Douglas, who was an absentee, and who died Bishop of Salisbury, he officiated as curate and master of a grammar school for a stipend — always grudgingly and contumeliously paid — of three-and-twenty pounds a year. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
  • Remove the thyme stalks, scotch bonnet and spring onion before serving. Times, Sunday Times
  • Aged for a minimum of three years and blended to produce consistent taste from year to year, Canadian whisky is usually very light in taste compared to Scotch or bourbon.
  • This gave the following explanation of ‘fricandoes’: ‘a sort of Scotch collops, made of thin slices of Veal well larded and farced, which are afterwards to be dressed in a Stewpan, close covered, over a gentle Fire.’
  • The brewpub also carries 45 single malt Scotches.
  • (pray bear that in mind, gentle reader), gentry by birth, and incontestably so by my father's bearing the commission of good old George the Third, we were _not fine gentry_, but people who could put up with as much as any genteel Scotch family who find it convenient to live on a third floor in London, or on a sixth at Edinburgh or Glasgow. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
  • For example, hard and even surfaces allow for children to play marbles or hopscotch, or to practice riding a scooter.
  • Now my mother hopscotches between acceptance and warnings of eternal damnation.
  • Or else you could make a kind of butterscotch glaze: just heat some brown sugar, a little unsalted butter and a dash of cream together on the stove — it makes a thick sauce which you can then pour on the cake with praline almonds. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Let them eat cake
  • Lenny sprawls on a couch, cigarette and scotch close to hand, while Rorem plays through some obscure songs by Paul Bowles.
  • We send one member for every 40,000 people in Ireland to the Imperial Parliament, while England, Scotland and Wales send only one for every 73,000; in other words, one Irishman is as good as two Scotchmen or two Englishmen in the British House of Commons, that is, if they like to go. The Irish Problem
  • And if she enjoyed a tot of Scotch whiskey every now and then, well, they liked that too.
  • As Mom drove and rattled on endlessly about how wonderful her high school years were, I studied my class schedule which I hastily scotch-taped to the cover of my binder.
  • Scotch regiment then besieged in Trailsund, saying they heard there was a ship come from Denmark to them laden with tobacco pipes, “One of our soldiers,” says Colonel Robert Munro, “showing them over the work a morgenstern, made of a large stock banded with iron, like the shaft of a halberd, with a round globe at the end with cross iron pikes, saith, A Legend of Montrose
  • Converse ordered a Scotch and water, leaning forward in order to keep the length of the lobby in his scan.
  • I read them one-handed, a Scotch in the other.
  • He demanded a great deal of money, complete privacy, a limo to transport him to and from the meeting and a bottle of the best single malt Scotch at each session.
  • Desserts included vanilla and praline bavarois with caramelised hazelnuts and mascarpone ice-cream as well as white chocolate and caramelised banana crepe with orange butterscotch sauce.
  • Scotch Greys and all the troops in the garison who were not employ'd at the Letter 290
  • There is no drink more hospitable than Scotch Whisky, wherever you are in the world.
  • Here it's mixed with dark chocolate and rich butterscotch.
  • The new pastry selection includes mousse au chocolat, mocha magic and pineapple, and butterscotch gateaux.
  • As a youngster I would run screaming if any of my playmates were sick after eating too much ice-cream before a particularly vigorous game of hopscotch.
  • The bar tender was very funny, teasing me when I ordered a white wine spritzer instead of the Scotch he was trying to persuade everyone to imbibe.
  • It is only one generation since the provostship of Scotch towns was generally reserved for one of the local landlords belonging to the upper classes. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
  • Briana shivered in the 90⁰ heat, jumping with hotch scotch feet over puddled corners. Madi's Love
  • But thats what I tell my scotch drinkin "shrink friend" when the pontificatiion gets more thnan my humble Norwegian countenance can stand. Rifle Shooting's 10 Most Significant Developments of the Decade
  • Becky was on her way to watch the kids play Jacks and Hopscotch by the tennis courts, when she spotted the little creature hopping near a trash can in the garden trail rest area.
  • Three packs of Scotch pancakes and a tube of anchovy paste. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gautier calls it Panatela, and it has very nice butterscotch and caramel flavors, and while sweet, it is not cloying.
  • The Lowland Scotch has _donsie_, "unfortunate, stupid. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
  • Secondary fermentation, also called malolactic fermentation, usually produces flavours of butter and/or butterscotch.
  • The last stop is the world's largest collection of scotch. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her Majesty could not help smiling at the awe-struck manner in which the quiet demure figure of the little Scotchwoman advanced towards her, and yet more at the first sound of her broad northern accent. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • While, since thegn and thane are both archaisms, I prefer the former; not only for the same reason that induces Sir Francis Palgrave to prefer it, viz., because it is the more etymologically correct; but because we take from our neighbours the Scotch, not only the word thane, but the sense in which we apply it; and that sense is not the same that we ought to attach to the various and complicated notions of nobility which the Anglo-Saxon comprehended in the title of thegn. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
  • The name launched at me in a mist of scotch by my father. Walls of Silence
  • The Scotch Blue bottle has a slender neck and a cylindrical main body, as has Ballantine's.
  • Vicky was less pleased with her caramelised pear and butterscotch with marjolaine gâteau: the pears and butterscotch were up to scratch, but the gâteau was a tad rich and rather dry.
  • The West Indian sauce is made from the exceedingly hot scotch bonnet pepper.
  • I saw the word butterscotch in the DB forum and just HAD to click * drool*. Daring Bakers Challenge - Opéra Cake
  • After the first time she shat all over the couch on that second day, did she even stop to wonder if it was Scotch garded? Unclebob Diary Entry
  • His tattered clothes hung loosely on his pale and thin skeleton as he thrust three bottles of scotch to the side.
  • His opinions of French, English, Irish, and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family, in a diligence or stage-coach. English Traits (1856)
  • The new tool will allow identification in seconds and help to scotch rumours long before they have spread across the internet. Times, Sunday Times
  • He lambastes overanxious pop rappers, racial tension, and society's preconceptions in a nasal hopscotch speed rap over frantic instrumentals.
  • So plans were formed and we arranged the elaborate car-hopscotch required to ensure that no-one would drive home drunk.
  • Secrets and truths emerge, which cause emotional bruising, but nothing a slug of Scotch can't cure.
  • The balance is superb, with a nose of apricot, toffee and butterscotch.
  • --- When we had a Scotch Parliament, Pate, 'says I (and deil rax their thrapples that reft us o't!) ` they sate dousely down and made laws for a haill country and kinrick, and never fashed their beards about things that were competent to the judge ordinar Rob Roy
  • As I scooped up the tortoise, it gave an indignant wheeze and swiftly retracted its limbs and head, bringing up the hinged piece of plastron that closes the brown-and-butterscotch patterned “box” of protective shell. Beginner’s Grace
  • So, we went back to the hotel and Shel and I joined Jo and Vanda in their room and partook of a snifter or two of scotch and had a few deep meaningful conversations, set the world to rights, etc, etc.
  • It is unlike the waltz, the gavotte, the country dance, the Scotch reel, the Spanish Cachucha, the Hungarian mazurka; is far worse than jota Arragonese, or the most lascivious of Spanish dances of Andalusia. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
  • Big, on the other hand, smoked cigars, drank Scotch, had the best one-liners and a headful of sleek black hair I was born to run my fingers through.
  • Feeling the cold touch of fear grip his heart, the crook drank deeply from the scotch in his glass.
  • Fish and chips, roast rib of beef, cottage pie, potted shrimps, Scotch egg with whisky mayonnaise, egg custard tart - all are revealed in a new and con temporary light.
  • The stern and wild leitmotif was underlined with a hefty and very pleasant fruit dumpling in butterscotch sauce to finish.
  • Shoppers are being duped into buying foreign meat which has been inaccurately labelled as Scotch beef, farmers' leaders have claimed.
  • So with the country in a patriotic fever about its returning braves, I was ace-high in popular esteem - there was even talk that I'd get one of the new Victoria Crosses (for what that was worth) but it's my belief that Airey and Cardigan scotched it between them. Fiancée
  • They wore jackets of Scotch tweed and flannel suits in winter, blue blazers and gabardines in summer; all of it they'd had tailored by New Haven tailors like Chipp or Langrock's.
  • And while there, was it possible she had her cooks rustle up some Scotch broth which, in turn, influenced the French chefs who came up with pot-au-feu?
  • When the monument designation scotched that plan, predictions of economic doom rang through the county seat.
  • Extremely narrow fairways and tiny greens mean the Scotch broom, beach grass and native rhododendron will snag anything off line.
  • Produced by more than 100 Scotch distilleries, each single malt has a style and flavor all its own.
  • Oh, I have heard of that smaik," said the Scotch merchant, interrupting him; "it is he whom your principal, like an obstinate auld fule, wad make Rob Roy — Complete
  • He'd enjoy a scotch while he was waiting for his lunch, two glasses of beer with the food, and a digestif.
  • He is the only man I ever met who chain - smoked cigars, and he drank Scotch freely.
  • She kept herself busy playing whip a top, hoopla, marbles, hopscotch, hide and seek and oranges and lemons.
  • Is it possible to get it treated with some kind of protectant, like Scotchgarding the sofa? Keeping White Woolens Looking Clean

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