The longest time he spent away from the croft was the six years he spent serving his country in the last war.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"croft" i.e. a very small holding of land, where he raised sheep and grew potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"] Reference

With a croft and a garden, for which he pays rent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

It was only the two of them, alone in their croft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

And they bore her aloft o'er the sward of the croft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference

Look in a garden-croft when a flower privily growing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

Better forget it ever was a potter's croft and field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

Inside the croft house, a dog began to bark furiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

Look in a garden croft, when a flower privily growing, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

He had been neglecting his domestic duties about the croft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

They walked on in silence until they reached the low croft house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

When she returned to the croft, she had to help with the lambing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

Though he was fond and welcome at Ruald's croft long before that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

He went back into the croft house and told Parry what he had learned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Scriptwriter]

The field was theirs, the croft there was her home after he left it. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

Not a croft, not a tattie-plot, not a cow or a sheep or a pig or a goat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

I never knew he was sleeping the nights through up at the potter's croft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

He wandered in the direction of the croft, which lay just outside the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

The one who is known to have made free with Brother Ruald's croft last year? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

The mushrooms in the croft gathered themselves and down on a dish in the larder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference

One would never get through the furze-croft if one stopped to pull out the prickles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

The nearest place of haven, Anya decided, was her father's croft, just outside town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

'Britric is the one man we know to have made himself at home there in Ruald's croft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

The transfer of the sheep being completed, Parry waved Hamish towards the croft house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Scriptwriter]

He went along by the side of the croft just as the sun rose, and caught sight of the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Poets] Reference

She was living with him in the little croft that Struan had bought for him many years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tai-Pan]

And no one from Longner had gone up the field to the deserted croft once Generys was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

His motherless sons: for them the croft, for them the boat, for them his every waking thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonely Sea]

They found his tracts abandoned and his croft aflame, with no sign of the serf-master himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Warlord]

Mrs Burbridge seated herself next to Millie, and Benton and May croft took the other two chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighthouse]

But that off-putting manner" it's as bad or worse than that barrier Alders-croft has about him. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard Of London]

Cadfael turned off in that direction, and found the croft not a quarter of a mile from the track.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Corpse Too Many]

Jist strolled into the village one day, bought a wee bit of a croft house and started doing it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

Then he looked into a croft under the minster, and there he saw a tomb which burnt full marvellously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

Now if he told Blair, the equivalent of a SWAT team would descend on the Smiley brothers and take their croft apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]