"Scotswoman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the support of Sir JOHN REES, but for the most part he was Athanasius contra mundum, maintaining his equanimity even when Mr. HOGGE advised him to "marry a Scotswoman;" or Lady ASTOR expressed her regret that he had not women, instead of bankers, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 • Various
... rest her soul!" said the Scotswoman; "and to a daintier lassie she could not have ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott
... Mrs. Macpherson," and he repeated his three sentences, all that he had learned of his mother, who had become a Scotswoman in ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... was asking myself during the whole time of dinner. She was clearly not a Scotswoman. When she spoke, it was in the sweet low accents of a southern clime, and she waved away the proffered haggis with an ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
... pretty young "Scotswoman," however, was but short-lived. She had none of the vulgar attractions that could win him to any kind of constancy; and he quickly abandoned her for the more agreeable company of his dienshtchiks, ...
— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall |
