Scotchman

Examples

• He once lived wi' a Scotchman that tached him the mysteries o' that craft, as they say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Forsyth, a Scotchman, who in 1803 invented the percussion principle in fire-arms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Leave the prejudiced old Scotchman; go away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But the type of the modern threshing machine was the invention of a Scotchman, one Meikle, of Tyningham, East Lothian, in 1786. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• James Gregory, a Scotchman, designed the first reflector in 1663, and described it in a book, but he was too poor to construct it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Also about this time, Symington, the Scotchman, constructed a working model of a steam carriage, which is still preserved in the museum at South Kensington, London. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Although he was a Scotchman he laughed immoderately. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• About the same time Robert Davidson, a Scotchman, experimented with an electric railway car sixteen feet long, weighing six tons, and attaining a speed of four miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1794, a Scotchman invented the grain cradle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The old Scotchman was one of the innocent, chartered libertines of the place, with an unlimited stock of good jokes and stories, but seldom of any practical use. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Paragon then put them to bed, gave them a Scotchman, in the shape of a pill, and all was still as the grave! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The inventor was Alexander Graham Bell, by nativity a Scotchman, then a resident of Canada, and finally a citizen of the United States. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Symington and his fellow Scotchmen, Miller and Taylor, in 1788-89 also constructed working steamboats. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Meanwhile the King was plotting and looking for help in strange quarters--from the Catholic Irish, from treasonable Scotchmen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Scotchmen do not seem to believe very much in this British nationality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then you may come, and I'll teach you to knit as the Scotchmen do. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Editor: Ozzie