Another quality of the Scotchman is his love of being right-and, his desire to keep the other fellow right also. From Wordnik.com. [Scotland's Contributions to the Empire] Reference
I remember one, a calcined Scotchman from the New Hebrides. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess] Reference
This gulch, called the Scotchman's gulch, I am told, because a. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Englishman or a Scotchman is the best ancestor in this world, many as his shortcomings are. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Walter H Page]
After Koho had learned that the Scotchman was a man of his word, the first true peace was made. From Wordnik.com. [The Jokers of New Gibbon] Reference
"Quite true, Sir Gervaise; and a Scotchman is a Scotchman, even though he come from the north of Tweed.". From Wordnik.com. [The Two Admirals] Reference
Roosevelt, who recognized Gregor Lang's limitations, recognized also that the Scotchman was a good business man. From Wordnik.com. [Roosevelt in the Bad Lands] Reference
If this be true, it seems a little severe to call a Scotchman to account for being intoxicated one hundred years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
But there, it is of no use my hoping that, Keith; for your Scotchman is a quarrelsome creature by nature, at least so it seems to me. From Wordnik.com. [With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War] Reference
Great Northern "Scotchman" stops 49 minutes on its journey from. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference
The Scotchman is quiet and cautions. From Wordnik.com. [Scotland's Contributions to the Empire] Reference
No Scotchman is insensible to gallantry. From Wordnik.com. [Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough] Reference
Do you know why a Scotchman is cautious?. From Wordnik.com. [Conditions in the West] Reference
Conventicle of Anabaptists in Southwark, where he had knocked over a certain "Scotchman" and one or two other speakers for the Conventicle. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
Next the Scotchman was the place assigned to. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
She brought that Scotchman over to try and show me up. From Wordnik.com. [The Drone A Play in Three Acts] Reference
Another Scotchman, Robert Buchanan, the famous novelist, set out for. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
Years ago a young Scotchman from Fife, in Scotland, was leaving home. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
While we are talking, the "Flying Scotchman," the quickest of all the. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
They're a braw set of men, and there's many a gude Scotchman among them. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
And a Finn runs a Scotchman very hard in evading a straightforward answer. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Scotchman, that type more closely resembling the Finn than the Saxon race. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
"Shall we be quitting, Jamie?" he said in banter to a Scotchman at his side. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
But the metal was no sooner exhibited than my Scotchman refused it with disdain. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Imagine our Flying Scotchman speeding North even one minute before the advertised hour!. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
I have frequently heard it said, "Go where you will, you are sure to find a rat and a Scotchman.". From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Scotchman, named Jennings, by a murmuring, running stream, and beneath some willows, we laid him. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
An old Scotchman, who knows more about it than any one else here, had said to us before we started. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
A Scotchman who had recently married brought from London a goodly supply of fine glassware for the new home. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
And as he uttered this ungracious answer, he urged on his nag, and soon left the old Scotchman in the lurch. From Wordnik.com. [Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale] Reference
Still, the stubborn Scotchman persisted in denying the medicine, though I offered him payment in silver or gold. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The fair woman, wife of a Scotchman who acted as some sort of secretary to O'Halloran, sat apart in cold silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Blake, of Emberon, must have been very old; and he was probably as saving and canny as any Scotchman who ever wore kilts. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
"Why, what's the matter with him?" he asked eagerly, surprised that the staid old Scotchman should have gotten into trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
But the wary Scotchman would not give his secret for nothing -- and why should he, to a stranger who had been uncivil to him?. From Wordnik.com. [Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale] Reference
The Scotch pipers were playing the tunes that reminded the Scotchman of the heather and the hills, and they were dying of homesickness. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
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