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    1. He walked into the kitchen to grab a bottle of Scotch he’d been saving for their anniversary and didn’t bother with a glass


    2. He had the taste of Scotch in his mouth and was as determined


    3. Hamo holds out his hand, casually snags a bottle of single-malt scotch as a forklift whizzes by


    4. Jaseem slipped into the seat cradling a cloth-bound bottle of scotch from 2318


    5. He tried to calculate what hundred year old scotch would have cost a mortal


    6. An ornamental pool with a fountain graced the center of it, they took the scotch to some high-backed stools that bracketed a small table next to a small raised lawn upon which houris might perform


    7. For that Jaseem promised him another bottle of scotch


    8. After he had driven his black beauty of a car out onto the lane and closed the back gate, she took a tin of something fishy out of the under sink cupboard , sat down in one of her rickety old kitchen chairs, the one next to the gently warming range, and poured herself a thick measure of her favourite Scotch


    9. The adrenalin rush of the previous evening and the near quarter bottle of Scotch that she had drunk before bed had not mixed well and, when she opened the door to the reporter from the Sun & Mercury, Miss Jones was suffering from the unpalatable effects of her first hangover since her debutante years


    10. of Scotch that she had drunk before bed had not mixed well and,

    11. Dirty, I'm afraid, but I’ll ask the stupid Scotch men for new clothes


    12. Maggie flips up the counter top, hits the optic at the bottom of one of the bottles of Scotch three times and glares at a man who has the temerity to ask for three pints of bitter


    13. He sits up at the edge of the bed and retrieves a half bottle of supermarket scotch from the bedside table


    14. He downs the last of his scotch and places the glass firmly on the bar, ensuring that Alex has no option but to notice


    15. He can smell cheap scotch on the man's breath and the last lingering scent of medicated shampoo


    16. Jack was drinking some high-priced scotch


    17. In some parts of Scotland, a few poor people make a trade of gathering, along the sea-shore, those little variegated stones commonly known by the name of Scotch pebbles


    18. But English corn must be sold dearer in Scotland, the country to which it is brought, than in England, the country from which it comes; and in proportion to its quality it cannot be sold dearer in Scotland than the Scotch corn that comes to the same market in competition with it


    19. The quality of grain depends chiefly upon the quantity of flour or meal which it yields at the mill ; and, in this respect, English grain is so much superior to the Scotch, that though often dearer in appearance, or in proportion to the measure of its bulk, it is generally cheaper in reality, or in proportion to its quality, or even to the measure of its weight


    20. But in 1756, another year or great scarcity, the Scotch manufactures made more than ordinary advances

    21. In the new town of Edinburgh, built within these few years, there is not, perhaps, a single stick of Scotch timber


    22. In an ancient manuscript of the Regiam Majestatem, an old Scotch law book, there is a statute of assize, in which the price of bread is regulated according to all the different prices of wheat, from tenpence to three shillings the Scotch boll, equal to about half an English quarter


    23. Three shillings Scotch, at the time when this assize is supposed to have been enacted, were equal to about nine shillings sterling of our present money Mr Ruddiman seems {See his Preface to Anderson's Diplomata Scotiae


    24. In proportion to the quantity or measure, Scotch corn generally appears to be a good deal cheaper than English; but, in proportion to its quality, it is certainly somewhat dearer


    25. In the Scotch coin, before the union with England, the gold preponderated very little, though it did somewhat {See Ruddiman's Preface to Anderson's Diplomata, etc


    26. Had the Scotch cattle been always confined to the market of Scotland, in a country in which the quantity of land, which can be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of cattle, is so great in proportion to what can be applied to other purposes, it is scarce possible, perhaps, that their price could ever have risen so high as to render it profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them


    27. But the easy terms upon which the Scotch banking companies accept of repayment are, so far as I know, peculiar to them, and have perhaps been the principal cause, both of the great trade of those companies,and of the benefit which the country has received from it


    28. The Scotch banks, in consequence of an excess of the same kind, were all obliged to employ constantly agents at London to collect money for them, at an expense which was seldom below one and a half or two per cent


    29. The gold coin which was paid out, either by the Bank of England or by the Scotch banks, in exchange for that part of their paper which was over and above what could be employed in the circulation of the country, being likewise over and above what could be employed in that circulation, was sometimes sent abroad in the shape of coin, sometimes melted down and sent abroad in the shape of bullion, and sometimes melted down and sold to the Bank of England at the high price of four pounds an ounce


    30. Whatever coin, therefore, was wanted to support this excessive circulation both of Scotch and English paper money, whatever vacuities this excessive circulation occasioned in the necessary coin of the kingdom, the Bank of England was obliged to supply them

    31. The Scotch banks, no doubt, paid all of them very dearly for their own imprudence and inattention : but the Bank of England paid very dearly, not only for its own imprudence, but for the much greater imprudence of almost all the Scotch banks


    32. Whatever was advanced upon such circulating bills was in Edinburgh advanced in the paper of the Scotch banks ; and in London, when they were discounted at the Bank of England in the paper of that bank


    33. The difficulties, accordingly, which the Bank of England, which the principal bankers in London, and which even the more prudent Scotch banks began, after a certain time, and when all of them had already gone too far, to make about discounting, not only alarmed, but enraged, in the highest degree, those projectors


    34. They seem to have intended to support the spirited undertakings, for as such they considered them, which were at that time carrying on in different parts of the country ; and, at the same time, by drawing the whole banking business to themselves, to supplant all the other Scotch banks, particularly those established at Edinburgh, whose backwardness in discounting bills of exchange had given some offence


    35. The temporary relief, however, which this bank afforded to those projectors, proved a real and permanent relief to the other Scotch banks


    36. But at Carlisle, bills were paid in gold and silver ; whereas at Dumfries they were paid in Scotch bank notes ; and the uncertainty of getting these bank notes exchanged for gold and silver coin, had thus degraded them four per cent


    37. When the Scotch parliament was no longer to be assembled in it, when it ceased to be the necessary residence of the principal nobility and gentry of Scotland, it became a city of some trade and industry


    38. The capital which sends Scotch manufactures to London, and brings back English corn and manufactures to Edinburgh, necessarily replaces, by every such operation, two British capitals, which had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of Great Britain


    39. It is even to be found, where we should least of all expect to find it, in some old Scotch acts of Parliament, which forbid, under heavy penalties, the carrying gold or silver forth of the kingdom


    40. A tablet stood on the table, next to an empty bottle of scotch stood and an ashtray filled with cigarette butts, its latest one still emitting a faint smoke trail

    41. His breath was hot and heavy, and had the acute aroma of scotch


    42. The salt with which these herrings are cured is sometimes Scotch, and sometimes foreign salt ; both which are delivered, free of all excise duty, to the fish-curers


    43. The excise duty upon Scotch salt is at present 1s:6d


    44. Two bushels are the supposed average of Scotch salt


    45. If the herrings are entered for exportation, no part of this duty is paid up; if entered for home consumption, whether the herrings were cured with foreign or with Scotch salt, only one shilling the barrel is paid up


    46. It was the old Scotch duty upon a bushel of salt, the quantity which, at a low estimation, had been supposed necessary for curing a barrel of herrings


    47. But from the 5th April 1771 to the 5th April 1782, the quantity of foreign salt imported amounted to 936,974 bushels, at eighty-four pounds the bushel ; the quantity of Scotch salt delivered from the works to the fish-curers, to no more than 168,226, at fifty-six pounds the bushel only


    48. Put all these things together, and you will find that, during these eleven years, every barrel of buss-caught herrings, cured with Scotch salt, when exported, has cost government 17s:11¾d


    49. Such a bounty upon the importation of Scotch flax in England would have been too great a discouragement to the native produce of the southern part of the united kingdom


    50. The price of Scotch wool, when, in














































    1. George sank back into his chair as the impact of this disclosure seeped through his scotched consciousness


    2. They are crushed fast… so the idea of even raising your head and protesting about anything is scotched before any momentum of resistance can begin


    3. All the potential improvements and betterments due to the rise in human intelligence were scotched and negated and reversed by the manipulations and violations of the undead at key positions: in the centralized shitpile of civilization


    4. The undead scotched that as quickly as they could by the infernal horror of mass manufacturing machines of war as quickly as they could: by the insane fervor of nation building and empire, by the insane idiotic nationalizing of people according to what fucking land they happened to live in, by making all nations enemies of each other, by using only the top echelon of the stupidest scum on earth to blunder their way into a world war which nobody wanted


    5. "There is nothing wonderful in that," replied Sancho, "since he is a knight-errant too; what I wonder at is that my beast should have come off scot-free where we come out scotched


    6. How neatly Melanie had scotched the scandal, keeping Scarlett at her side all through the dreadful evening! People had been a bit cool, somewhat bewildered, but they had been polite


    1. Truth be told she was probably a little tipsy having supped one too many medicinal Scotches from one of her neighbours’ hip flasks when she said, “They’re absolute scoundrels


    2. Scotches from one of her neighbours’ hip flasks when she said,


    3. He grumbled as politely as he could through the thick fog of an hour’s sleep and a pair of double scotches


    4. He fairly raced home after work and downed a couple of Scotches in quick succession soon after he arrived there


    5. Baba, who'd had a few scotches before dinner, was still ranting about the kite tournament, how I'd outlasted them all, how I'd come home with the last kite


    1. 4 I must give Fichte credit for stating openly his plan for scotching religion in the state; the New England Protestant elite was soon to do the same, but was too


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    Synonyms for "scotch"

    malt whiskey malt whisky scotch scotch malt whiskey scotch malt whisky scotch whiskey scotch whisky score baffle bilk cross foil frustrate queer spoil thwart economical frugal sparing stinting scots scottish abort block defeat hinder

    "scotch" definitions

    a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)


    whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still


    hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of


    make a small cut or score into


    of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language


    avoiding waste