Sentence examples for sottish from inspiring English sources

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sottish

adjective

Alcoholic, drinking heavily

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Unfortunately, with no such commitment in place the damaging uncertainty will continue.Alastair Cameron Edinburgh * SIR – Your article highlighted what many feel inevitable about the Sottish independence referendum; that it will go on and on, no matter what the result.

Better to catch him sleek and unctuous, say at a treaty-making parley in the Irish lands, where he will outfox the sottish envoys and curry favour with the Emperor Barack (smart casual; jerkins open; crowns will not be worn).

Chubby, with curling hair and an orotund voice, he has the round face and sottish grin of a Jewish Bacchus, though grape appeals to him less than weed.

Jourdain, whom Luchini plays with sottish grace, is a prototype of a Molière mock hero: a fey fool, a dabbler in the gentlemanly arts (a painting class ends after barely a brushstroke), leaking what little dignity he has in the vain pursuit of love.

The experiment — which, unsurprisingly, proved disastrous — yielded only one good result, or so Moore suggests: It provided Jane Austen with the inspiration for the sottish and entirely undisciplined Dick Musgrove, the least attractive of all the ambivalent characters she put on display in "Persuasion".

So I personally believe that what the Sottish government has done is a good thing; and a brave thing, especially considering the enormous pressure they were under not to take the decision they did.

Christopher Lee is the leader of a Sottish pagan sect, Edward Woodward a cop attempting to track down a missing girl.

He planted a vineyard, not the most useful of things with which to restart civilisation, and then lay sottish and naked in his tent.

Nor did he choose to redeem them in any other way but through the folly of the cross and through ignorant, sottish disciples".

Either More is talking loosely, and means to imply there is some active immaterial principle involved in the transfer of motions in collisions, or he has not yet properly grasped how best to use such signs of sottish life in inanimate bodies to show the limits of Cartesian mechanism, and the need for separate (non-material) principles of activity in the world.

The sensory assault continued with my fillet of roe venison, slaughtered at three months after roaming the Northumberland moors, cooked rare, piled up in a soft, steaming hecatomb on a mound of roesti and Sottish neeps.

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