How To Use Sir walter scott In A Sentence
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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.
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Sir Walter Scott nearly killed himself writing enough to pay for his home.
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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.
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This use never caught on, but the devilish connotation of the word reappeared over 200 years later when Sir Walter Scott used
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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.
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She can still recite passages from Sir Walter Scott's epic poem ‘The Lady of the Lake’.
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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.
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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.
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A good orientation point is the pinnacled Scott Monument, dedicated to Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, set in Princes Street Gardens.
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Respect was mingled with surprise ( Sir Walter Scott ).
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Third, Sir Walter Scott got it crack-on when he called the deerhound ‘the most perfect creature of heaven.’
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“The wretch, concentered all in self,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in 1805, might get “power and pelf” but would wind up “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”
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The venerable Sir Walter Scott, who self-consciously wrote romances, criticized Jane Austen for not being romantic enough.
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Sir Walter Scott made a single lowland Scottish dialect serve for all Scotland; and the Irish novelists, or the greater number of them, made Munster, Leinster and Connaught talk like a Dublin jarvey.333 Scott and the Irish novelists did their work according to their knowledge and their purpose, and were justified.
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We have often regretted that Sir Walter Scott, who, after all, has not done full justice to Bruce in that very unequal and incondite poem 'The
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Travellers were not welcome and foraging parties of clansmen would regularly plunge south on what Sir Walter Scott called ‘predatory excursions upon their Lowland neighbours’.
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When we got married I think we maybe had 10 books each, including novels by Sir Walter Scott.
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Then [he says] comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government; with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society.
My beloved South,
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But it was Pride and Prejudice that Austen described as her ‘own darling child’ which received highly favourable reviews, including an anonymous one from Sir Walter Scott.
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It was necessary, on this account, that Lord Sinclair should disinherit his eldest son; and "as it would," says Sir Walter Scott, "have been highly impolitic to have alleged his forfeiture for treason as a cause of the deed, the slaughter of the Schaws was given as a reason for his exheredation.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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Even the bonnet with the eagle's feather, which Sir Walter Scott induced Kemble to substitute for his "shuttlecock" headdress of ostrich plumes, was held to be inadmissible: the Macbeth of the antiquaries wore a conical iron helmet, and was otherwise arrayed in barbaric armour.
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