Lexicographical Neighbors of Sennachie
Literary usage of Sennachie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"Faith, Dr Smith, it is not every one who is able to follow our sennachie, ...
Our sennachie, dosing one night by the fireside, said he saw the ..."
2. An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education by Hugh Miller (1855)
"I was the sennachie, he said ; and as the sennachie I might have been known so
long as I remained under his charge, had it not been that, priding himself ..."
3. The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688 by John Hill Burton (1870)
"He was a poet—a mere sennachie; and he dropped. in their eyes to the social
position which the sennachie had occupied since— " The bigots of the iron time ..."
4. My Schools and Schoolmasters by Hugh Miller (1869)
"I was the sennachie, he said; and as the sennachie I might have been known so
long as I remained under his charge, had it not been that, priding himself ..."
5. The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the by John Hill Burton (1873)
"He was a poet—a mere sennachie ; and he dropped in their eyes to the social
position which the sennachie had occupied since— " The bigots of the iron time ..."
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