Scott, Sir Walter

Cultural  

1. A Scottish author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Scott wrote immensely popular historical novels, such as Ivanhoe and Waverley, and poems, including “The Lady of the Lake.”

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Example Sentences

Scotland and the Commonwealth, cited, 225 Scots-Hall, 57 Scott, John, cited, 391, 393 Scott, Sir Walter, 196, 275.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace

Scott, Sir Walter, his nomenclature deeply founded, 34. ii.

From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by Ruskin, John

Scott, Sir Walter, alterations in the proof-sheets of his "Waverley Novels," 15; a ghost word in his "Monastery," 158; Goethe on, 110; Ruskin on, 109.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

Scots Observer, the, 82 Scotsman, the, 61, 142 Scott, Sir Walter, 27, 124 Senatus Academicus, the, of Edinburgh University, 29, 186, 194.

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Gordon, Henry Laing

Scott, Sir Walter, Jefferson upon his novels, 184.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James