Word: scottishly
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That life begins in a small, intolerant Scottish village. Francis Chisholm felt an early affection for the rough, bluff, competent fishermen and workers of whom his father was one. But when Francis was nine, descendants of Covenanters stoned the elder Chisholm nearly to death because he was a Catholic. Trying to reach home afterwards on a slippery bridge across a flooded river, Father and Mother Chisholm were drowned...
...Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party, lands on a Scottish estate...
...since the Crusades had the Near East seen such a polyglot host. Besides the Glubb-led Arabs, General Wilson had in his supporting cast British and Scottish regulars, Anzacs, Canadians, Indians (mostly Sikhs and Gurkhas) and Free French. Senegalese, Annamites, Algerians, Moroccans and Lebanese, in addition to Vichy-loyal French regulars, helped General Dentz furnish the present production's conflict...
...sanctity of the British home in the way a housewife holds the military at bay while remarking incredulously to her husband inside: "Here's a man wants to put a balloon in the back yard." And there is a suspicion of an ancient animosity in a Scottish soldier's reply to the hungry query of his newly-arrived comrades from London: "No. No haggis. They're breedin...
With his fractured ankle now well on the mend, he stumped about, a dour Scottish captain dogging his trail. But London reports had him mum and sullen, complaining at being given ordinary food, demanding "extras" for which he said he had money to pay, piqued because no Cabinet ministers had yet visited...