"Scone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fair girl, consuming her buttered scone with frank enjoyment. "You could live at the Ritz or Waldorf a good deal cheaper than in some of these crofter's cottages. You see, until the War began they never let anything in their lives. No one ever wanted ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... this force, for I doubt not that he was glad to see dissension in Scotland, which might give him some such pretext for interference as that which Edward I had seized to possess himself of that country. At first Baliol was successful, and was crowned at Scone, but he was presently defeated and driven out of Scotland. The Scots now made an eruption across the frontier as a retaliation for Edward's having permitted Baliol to gather a force here for his war against ...
— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty
... Chapel of Edward the Confessor, within the splendid shrine of which repose his ashes. Here we were shown the chair on which the English monarchs have been crowned for several hundred years, Under the seat is the stone, brought from the Abbey of Scone, whereon the Kings of Scotland were crowned. The chair is of oak, carved and hacked over with names, and on the bottom some one has recorded his name with the fact that, he once slept in it. We sat down and rested in it without ceremony. Passing along an aisle leading to the ...
— Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor
... body guard, and confiding in the love of his subjects, James I. of Scotland was residing within the walls of the Carthusian monastery at Scone. Graham of Stratham seized the occasion, and brought down a party by night to the neighborhood. Seconded by traitors within, he gained possession of the gates and interior passages. The king's first intimation was from ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head
... self-same surgeon that I subsequently learned The first remark of the victim when his consciousness returned:— "The Georgians may shine at shying the crumpet and the scone, But as poets they're just No Earthly compared ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 18th, 1920 • Various
... sire, that being called in 1650 to Edinburgh, during Cromwell's expedition into Ireland, I was crowned at Scone. A year after, wounded in one of the provinces he had usurped, Cromwell returned upon us. To meet him was my object; to leave Scotland ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... he has done his murder and is on his way to be crowned at Scone. He has not a wife, but he has a daughter ambitious as himself. She has a son. He sees his line secured. He has suborned other murderers and made traitors of honest men—and our Laputa philosopher at Washington smiles and says there ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
... Back-cast, back-stroke. Baith, both. Bang, to beat. Bannock, a scone. Bawbee, a halfpenny. Beild, shelter. Bein, bien, well provided. Belive, directly. Bide, to wait, to suffer. "Bide a blink," stay a minute. Birky, a lively young fellow. Birl, to toss, to drink. Bleeze, a blaze; also, to brag, to talk ostentatiously. Blithe, happy. Blude, bluid, blood. Boddle, a ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... Goodrich-Freer, "More Folklore from the Hebrides," Folk-lore, xiii. (1902) p. 41. The St. Michael's cake (Struthan na h'eill Micheil), referred to in the text, is described as "the size of a quern" in circumference. "It is kneaded simply with water, and marked across like a scone, dividing it into four equal parts, and then placed in front of the fire resting on a quern. It is not polished with dry meal as is usual in making a cake, but when it is cooked a thin coating of ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... to offer you, old man," he managed to blurt out when at length the last scone had disappeared, and the rapid, one-sided meal was at an end. Field still made no reply, for he was almost asleep in his seat. He merely looked up wearily ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... wife has brought scones to their perfect and utmost evolution. She has made the super-scone. Only, Helen isn't a scone ...
— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill
... busy all evening baking vet-koek (a kind of scone fried in lard), as we had received the order to be ready to leave the following morning at one o'clock, and to take provisions sufficient for two days. Although our officers were beginning to see the advisability of keeping their plans secret, we were able to guess that we were going to attack ...
— On Commando • Dietlof Van Warmelo |
