A woman who is a Scot

Usage examples of scotchwoman.

There was a housekeeper once upon a time, a tubby Scotchwoman to whom Mrs Rackham attached herself, limpet-like, until it ended in tears: thereafter, a ban on the very subject.

The good and gentle Scotchwoman stayed alone with the convict leader for two long hours.

It was not difficult to arouse the apprehension of this person, who, though a stout-hearted Scotchwoman, was ready enough to listen to anything that confirmed her dread of Indian cruelties.

Olive, a Scotchwoman of the usually accepted type: tall, bony, with sandy-coloured hair, and a somewhat melancholy expression in her blue-grey eyes.

Tall, ill-dressed in deep black, with a heavy crape veil over her face, and black cotton gloves, she looked the uncompromising Scotchwoman to the life.

The emphasis which she laid on the last few words and the stern look with which she regarded the golden-haired young woman beside her, showed the disapproval with which the rigid Scotchwoman viewed any connection which her brother might have had with the lady, whose very name seemed unpleasant to her lips.

Tall, ill-dressed in deep black, with a heavy crape veil over her face, and black-cotton gloves, she looked the uncompromising Scotchwoman to the life.

She valued long descent, and noble blood, and loyalty to a fallen dynasty like a Scotchwoman, but, like a Scotchwoman, she also respected capability and energy and endurance.

Belial, there came actual joy to the soul of the Scotchwoman that, after all, her intuition had not been at fault.

His name is Mason, and his wife - a Scotchwoman - acts as housekeeper.

His mother was a Scotchwoman, and he was himself brought up and educated in Edinburgh.

Unfortunately she was not a Scotchwoman, to whom some national affinities might have appealed, and she could not understand the racy Doric of her husband and his friends.

McGilray was a huge, ungainly Scotchwoman, so tough and dry that when conscientiously putting before her the inconveniences she might have to suffer on the Island, we did not think it necessary to lay great stress upon the onslaughts of the mosquitoes.

An elderly Scotchwoman, the caretaker, appeared from the back and stood waiting to show them over.

She had been in the fields with Janet, who had woven for her breeze-blown hair a wreath of the wild gerardia blossoms, whose purple beauty had reminded the good Scotchwoman of her own native heather.