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Sir Walter Scott

NOUN
  1. British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)

How To Use Sir Walter Scott In A Sentence

  • Burke's execution was witnessed by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who sympathized with the general opinion that both men's wives had served as accomplices, and that the anatomists had been accessories to the murders.
  • Sir Walter Scott nearly killed himself writing enough to pay for his home.
  • Sir Walter Scott gave an account of an unidentified friend who had been in Paris and discovered a ‘tall, thin, raw-boned, grim-looking old man’ with a sunburned and heavily freckled face.
  • This use never caught on, but the devilish connotation of the word reappeared over 200 years later when Sir Walter Scott used Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • Sir Walter Scott may be the father of the historical novel but on this evidence his fellow borderer, Michael Scott, was a man ahead of his time.
  • She can still recite passages from Sir Walter Scott's epic poem ‘The Lady of the Lake’.
  • It is true that Atkinson portrays an auld Edinburgh filtered through the works of Sir Walter Scott, with a dash of Dickens thrown in for good measure.
  • Sir Walter Scott, Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field. 1809: Publication of the 2 volume stereotype edition of Bloomfield's Poems, containing new prefaces and revised texts of some of his work. A Bloomfield Chronology
  • A good orientation point is the pinnacled Scott Monument, dedicated to Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, set in Princes Street Gardens.
  • Respect was mingled with surprise ( Sir Walter Scott ).
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