Reluctant to join Scotsman in part of his country

Usage examples of lothian.

She had given up the farm to James Brodie, who had married her cousin Jane, the eldest of the two children she had mothered, and he had to come to the farm once or twice a week, having a still larger farm of his own in East Lothian, and a stock farm in Berwickshire also to look after.

Linnaeus, which formerly frequented the champaign parts of Great Britain from East Lothian to Dorsetshire, but of which the native race is now extirpated.

Lord Avon lost, and Sir Lothian lost, and my uncle lost, and Captain Barrington won until he could win no more.

Lord Avon had no children, and Sir Lothian Hume - the same who was at the card-party - is his nephew and heir.

We had played for two days, the four of us: Lord Avon, his brother Captain Barrington, Sir Lothian Hume, and myself.

The big barouche came lumbering over the sward in our direction until Sir Lothian Hume caught sight of us, when he shouted to his postillions to pull up.

At which hour I was aware of a long, lean, bony-like Lothian man of a very swarthy countenance, that came towards us among the bents on a farm horse.

In fact, North and South Esk bears some resemblance to the MidLothian parliamentary constituency - prior to 1983's Boundary Commission changes - but also bites a small southernmost chunk out of the present Edinburgh Pentlands constituency and a westerly chunk out of East Lothian constituency.

Most of lowland Britain was like this now-big patches even in the south and a continuous mass of it from the frontier of settlement here to East Lothian in Scotland-save for preChange forest and moor.

We drank more champagne and unpacked the picnic, which was the glorious gift of arguably the best restaurant in Scotland, La Potiniere at Gullane in East Lothian.

He imagined himself parking the car on Lothian Road, halfway between the two addresses, and kipping there.

Yet twice, in the last days of falling leaves, when the red larch trees stood bare in the icy wind that blew over Lothian, she dreamed of her foster-son Gwydion.

Archibald Simson, minister there, and that confession coming to the ears of Robert, Earl of Lothian, my lord’.

The British Olympic team for the Male Self-Importance event had invaded Lothian & Borders HQ, a rampant infestation of facial hair and Y chromosomes.