Scottishman

Elizabeth, admits that he is a "Scottishman," and therefore may be pardoned for looking at his subject with certain prejudices.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

As the single-hearted Scottishman had never for a moment doubted these gods of the ancient Gentiles to be actually devils, so he now hesitated not to believe that the blasphemous hymn of the Saracen had raised up an infernal spirit.

The Talisman 2008

When is it that a white hair is seen on the beard of a Scottishman, unless he be some wretch like thy sovereign, protected from murder by impotence, to witness the scenes of slaughter to which he cannot put a period?

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Scottishman with the force of a spring tide; for he was speedily summoned to the apartment of his Captain, the Lord Crawford, where, to his astonishment, he again beheld the King.

Quentin Durward 2008

After he married the great English fortune, folk called him less of a Scottishman than

Redgauntlet 2008

He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown.

Kenilworth 2004

Scoto, because he was a Scottishman borne, of many woorthy

The Decameron 2004

A pedigree, says Scott laughingly as he sits down to trace his own, is the national prerogative of every Scottishman, as unalienable as his pride and poverty; but he must be very poor or very proud who cannot find his account in the legitimate pedigree of the

Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

"Every Scottishman has his pedigree," says Scott in his fragment of Autobiography, and there is no lack of interest in the honorable one of his son-in-law, from the days of Simon Locard of the

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

Scottishman with the force of a spring tide; for he was speedily summoned to the apartment of his Captain, the Lord Crawford, where, to his astonishment, he again beheld the King.

Quentin Durward Walter Scott 1801