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"I have to say to you, Antonia, that Morello is a Castilian; his family is without a cross. He has the parchments of his noble ancestry to show." "And Senor Houston is an American Scotch-American, he said, last night. Pardon, my mother, but do you know what the men of Scotland are?" "Si!, They are monsters! Fray Ignatius has told me. They are heretics of the worst kind.
They are a very learned race of men, and very pious also. Jack has many Scotch-American friends. I know one of them very well"; and with the last words her face flushed, and her voice fell insensibly into slow and soft inflections. "Jack knows many of them! That is likely. Your father would send him to New York. All kinds of men are in New York.
We were an odd company: Llewellyn, a Welsh-Tahitian; Landers, a British New-Zealander; McHenry, Scotch-American; Polonsky, Polish-French; Schlyter, the Swedish tailor; David, an American vanilla-grower; "Lying Bill," English; and I, American. There was little talk at breakfast. They were trenchermen beyond compare, and the dishes were emptied as fast as filled.
He was as near being nervous as a Scotch-American Van Camp could be; and at the same time he felt an unwonted flow of life and warmth in his cool veins. He went so far as to make a remark to the waiter which he meant for an affable joke, and then wanted to kick the fellow for taking it so solemnly.
There was a small contingent of Americans, a great many Portuguese, some Spaniards, Norwegians, and a more or less polyglot remainder without national classification. His First Officer was a Scotch-American, the Second an Irish-American, the Chief Engineer a plain unhyphenated American from Baltimore, Maryland. The purser, Mr.
The girls who faced each other for the first time at the pool the daughter of the Scotch-American captain the daughter of the Apache Mohave chief were again brought into strange companionship over the unconscious form of the soldier Blakely.
Andrew Carnegie, a Scotch-American steel manufacturer and philanthropist, who established libraries in many cities of the United States. La Salle. A French explorer of the seventeenth century. He discovered the Ohio River and was the first to explore the greater part of the Mississippi River. Bret Harte, as he is familiarly known, was born in Albany, New York, in 1836.
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