How To Use Scotchman In A Sentence
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Probably there ran through every vein and current of the Scotchmans blood something that warmd up to this kind of trait and character above aught else in the world, and which makes him in my opinion the chief celebrater and promulger of it in literaturemore than Plutarch, more than Shakspere.
Carlyle from American Points of View. Specimen Days
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This daughter, who is described as a bewitching beauty, was taken to wife by Lachland McGillivray, a Scotchman engaged in the Indian trade.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism
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Probably there ran through every vein and current of the Scotchman's blood something that warm'd up to this kind of trait and character above aught else in the world, and which makes him in my opinion the chief celebrater and promulger of it in literature -- more than Plutarch, more than Shakspere.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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The award of lottery and European cash marks the end of a five-year campaign to replace dilapidated facilities in Scotchman Road.
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• "It does not concern me if Her Present Majesty is not a woman of great intellectual distinction – after all, our last monarch who did not at least border on the subnormal was James I, and he was a Scotchman without potty training.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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The doctor's first attempt had resulted in his calling the Scotchman 'Sor Langusta,' which means 'Sir Crayfish' -- and it must be admitted that 'Anguish' was an improvement.
Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)
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He does not regard the Scotchman's "mickle," because he does not stop to consider that the end is a "muckle.
The Negro Problem
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Scotchman educated at Edinburgh, he became at once an ardent defender of the colonial cause, as "high a Son of Liberty as any man in America," destined to be better known as a signer of the Declaration of
Beginnings of the American People
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Douglas yonder, as well as in other places through the vale, and that is but a woful sight for a true Scotchman — even my own poor house has not escaped the dignity of a garrison of a man-at-arms, besides two or three archer knaves, and one or two slips of mischievous boys called pages, and so forth, who will not let a man say, ‘this is my own,’ by his own fireside.
Castle Dangerous
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John McMillan, who is believed to have named the creek in the area Scotchmans Creek, squatted and grazed cattle.
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Sometimes one had a large pink blusterous person trying to carry us off our feet by his pseudo-boyish frankness, now some dyspeptically yellow whisperer, now some earnest, specially dressed youth with an eye-glass and a buttonhole, now some homely-speaking, shrewd Manchester man or some Scotchman eager to be very clear and full.
Tono Bungay
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Where an unexpected obstacle reared its head: nobody could understand a word the Scotchman said apart from his name, James Aiten.
Morgan’s Run
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After Koho had learned that the Scotchman was a man of his word, the first true peace was made.
THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON
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Sir John de Walton having alighted from his horse, asked Greenleaf what had passed during his absence; the old archer thought it his duty to say that a minstrel, who seemed like a Scotchman, or wandering borderer, had been admitted into the castle, while his son, a lad sick of the pestilence so much talked of, had been left for a time at the Abbey of Saint Bride.
Castle Dangerous
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Now, any dictionary or Scotchman will tell you that a dune is a hill of loose sand.
Fanny Herself
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One Scotchman was claiming that the peasantry of Scotland pronounced it three, his adversaries claimed that they didn't -- that they pronounced it 'thraw'.
Following the Equator
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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
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Another quality of the Scotchman is his love of being right-and, his desire to keep the other fellow right also.
Scotland's Contributions to the Empire
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The bandmaster was a Scotchman -- a stiff-looking, elderly man.
The Young Buglers
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It may seem to many of my readers that to use the term caste as a principle which impels one Scotchman to help another is not exactly correct; and I must admit to having some doubts on the subject myself.
Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore
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On all the vast riches that would be poured into Scotland a toll should be paid which would add to her capital; and a fabulous prosperity would be shared by every Scotchman from the peer to the cadie.
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America
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There would be a prosperity such as might seem fabulous, a prosperity of which every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie, would partake.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5
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He was a kinsman of the author, and a "braw" young Scotchman who came over to this country with the expectation of picking up a fortune in short order.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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But before a Scotchman, myself would prefar the poorest spalpeen -- barring it be Phil, the buckeen -- I ax pardon (_curtsying_), if a buckeen's the more honourable.
Tales and Novels — Volume 08
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I remember one, a calcined Scotchman from the New Hebrides.
THE PRINCESS
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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
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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
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The Scotchman was the best supported, for his manners were pleasing, and his willingness to oblige infinite.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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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
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I remember one, a calcined Scotchman from the New Hebrides.
THE PRINCESS
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Rational Review
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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