There was a house within sight, one of those hovels in which still the Highland shepherd or crofter is content to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference

My paternal grandfather was a Scottish Highland "crofter".    From Wordnik.com.  [gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"] Reference

At the house the crofter Durk was waiting for Kareen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

“As a crofter yourself, you should hae guessed that.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

Jakuta Khan will expect little resistance from a crofter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

"That is no concern of ours," said one stodgy-looking crofter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

He will track her down; the crofter cannot stand against him. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

The Highland crofter, on the other hand, rarely owns even a pig!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

Moa's small crofter farm in the province of Sörmland in central.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Martinson: Catching the Dewdrop, Reflecting the Cosmos] Reference

The crofter system has been an extremely bad one in many respects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

The poverty of the crofter often renders his condition deplorable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

Six hours 'march to the east, the crofter Arcis breathed his last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

Methinks as yon crofter said, belike the creature is one o 'theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Hearts and Three Lions]

Hell's teeth, I was ready to go home to Scotland and marry a crofter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender Rebel]

When she got there she asked the crofter if he would like his cows cured?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories] Reference

The dairy-crofter sat, obedient and dazed, passing one hand before his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

'Turns out Cuchullain sold them on to another crofter, and this crofter keeps records.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Causes]

He hoped they would forget about that crofter he said had seen Patricia on the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Scriptwriter]

Any crofter worth his salt could feed his family from a garden plot, the soil's so rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

It was the home of a crofter and his family, and they were asked if they had any children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1989 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Everyone had assumed he would become a crofter, eking out a slender existence to the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

His father was a crofter but could not make nearly enough to support all six younger children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Gossip]

The old man stumbled and fell to his knees as the crofter leapt to his feet, his knife snaking into his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

We got lucky, Cuchullain had to wait for his money, and he gave the crofter a forwarding address in the Borders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Causes]

She could still be off at some Iona spiritual retreat, or shacked up with a Gaelic crofter, or doing the Munros.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

He remembered the wife of a crofter who rose early to clean the rooms at a hotel and then to serve the breakfasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

“We wass chust deciding what to do about him in there,” said the crofter Jimmy Macleod with a jerk of his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

I sat my mare, raindrops glistening on my hair while Joscelin discussed treatment of our spavined mule with the dairy-crofter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

Even when the carriage came in sight he would not have been a bit surprised to have seen the crofter and his shrewish wife jump out of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

However, the sheriff ruled in favour of the crofter.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But all the Scot -- and perhaps the crofter -- rose in Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heather-Moon] Reference

Ay, dear lady, dear lady, my father was an honest crofter there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

His father was a crofter on a little island somewhere near Skye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heather-Moon] Reference

A crofter on the Western Isles believes he has the oldest sheep in.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to New Test May Help Address Costly Parasite In Sheep Industry] Reference

The traditional Highland crofter is quickly becoming a thing of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"] Reference

You know what these crofter fellows are -- ungrateful, vindictive rascals.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wrong Paradise] Reference