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He even wrote a half-Scottish history for the character in some of his later works.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2020

This relative conventionality makes it nothing like the more adventurous books for which this half-Scottish, half-Haitian writer has previously been admired.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2015

Ian, a radical Spaniard, half-Scottish by birth, who grew up in a village between Madrid and Segovia, had told me about the coming protest and encouraged me to join in.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2013

Rising Blood by James Fleming This is the third, final and most hair-raising story yet about Charlie Doig, a half-Russian, half-Scottish adventurer on the rampage during the early days of Lenin's Soviet Union.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011

Baron Sonnino, by the way, who is of half-Scottish extraction, speaks English perfectly.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 by Various