Word: scotland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...biography with a plot like a chambermaid's dream shows, Lola was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, the daughter of an 18-year-old lieutenant and a 13-year-old chorine. When she was seven, Eliza's father died of cholera in India. Shipped home to Scotland, the child appalled her stepfather's Presbyterian parents by running naked through the streets. Hustled off to school in Paris, she perfected a homicidal temper and a gift for languages. At 19, she eloped to Ireland with a lieutenant named Thomas James, who soon ran off with a captain...
...basic to Elizabeth's character and to her politics that she would not and could not see Mary. Brave enough to do anything else-"I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin," she once said, "than of the kings of Spain, France, Scotland, and the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates" -she was unequal to the task of confronting the woman she knew she might have to kill...
...fact, thanks to the enterprise of the reivers, as such hereditary brigands were known, between the battle of Flodden in 1513 and the English crackdown on Scotland after the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the border was probably the most troubled region on the face of the much troubled earth...
Fraser, an Englishman schooled in Scotland, makes a bold attempt to bring some order into the historical melee. He has no difficulty showing that patriotism had little to do with it all. Scots preyed upon English and were preyed upon, but at the same time they feuded among themselves. The border served mainly to complicate the job of law officers and make escape easier...
...thing, the other big tournaments this year are on three of his favorite courses-California's Pebble Beach for the U.S. Open in June; Scotland's Muirfield for the British Open in July; and Michigan's Oakland Hills for the P.G.A. in August. Furthermore, as Nicklaus demonstrated once again at the Masters, even when he is not at his best he still stands a few feet taller than the competition...