451 examples of scotchmen in sentences

Driving the enemy through the woods, a Scotch regiment hustled its foes right into the fishponds, the Scotchmen jumping in after the Germans up to the middle to finish them in the water, which was packed with their bodies.

London Magazine, August, 1821, where the title ran: "Jews, Quakers, Scotchmen, and other Imperfect Sympathies.

Lamb's criticism of Scotchmen did not pass without comment.

on Scotchmen, 67.

Scotchmen, Lamb on, 67, 371.

Let it be remembered by those who accuse Dr. Johnson of illiberality that both were Scotchmen.

After reading these nine volumes we know Scotland and Scotchmen as we can know them in no other way.

You can keep no men long, nor Scotchmen at all, off moral or theological discussion.

[Note 11: You can keep no men long, nor Scotchmen at all.

Boswell's surprise seems to indicate that Scotchmen in those days were even greater bears than Johnson.

" This sturdy British and High Church prejudice did not prevent the worthy doctor from having many warm friendships with Scotchmen, and helping many distressed Scotchmen in London.

" This sturdy British and High Church prejudice did not prevent the worthy doctor from having many warm friendships with Scotchmen, and helping many distressed Scotchmen in London.

"Certainly," replied Johnson, "but we must always remember that He made it for Scotchmen; and comparisons are odious, Mr. Strahan, but God made hell.

He was a Scotchman from Ayr, dour enough, and little disposed to be communicative, though I tried him with the "Twa Briggs," and, like all Scotchmen, he was a reader of "Burrns."

In time, Italians from Piedmont, Moravians and Lutherans from Germany, and Scotchmen from the Highlands, all made settlements in Georgia.

For instance, there are crack regiments in the British Army which wear the kiltthe kilt which, as Macaulay says with perfect truth, was regarded by nine Scotchmen out of ten as the dress of a thief.

Scotchmen improvident!

He hated Frenchmen, Scotchmen, and Americans, and had a cockneyish attachment to London.

GARDENERS, good, Scotchmen, ii. 77.

Yet the stealing of cattle does not now seem a very noble achievement in the eyes of honorable Scotchmen How will the stealing of children, within bounds prescribed by law and custom, appear to future generations of Americans?

You can keep no men long, nor Scotchmen at all, off moral or theological discussion.

Scotchmen banished from England.

So firmly seated in the Scotch mind was the belief in witchcraft as a sin and crime, that when the laws against it were repealed in 1736, Scotchmen in the highest stations of church and state remonstrated against the repeal as contrary to the law of God; and William Forbes, in his "Institutes of the Law of Scotland," calls witchcraft "that black art whereby strange and wonderful things are wrought by a power derived from the devil.

We will only say, in passing, that it is pleasant to see the rapid spread of clubs for the latter game, which a few years since was practised only by a few transplanted Englishmen and Scotchmen; and it is pleasant also to observe the twin growth of our indigenous American game of base-ball, whose briskness and unceasing activity are perhaps more congenial, after all, to our national character, than the comparative deliberation of cricket.

It would be worse than affectationit would be ingratitudeto disclaim being deeply impressed by the favourable reception which has for so long a time been given to these Reminiscences at home, in India, in America, and in all countries where Scotchmen are to be found.

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