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Crofter

noun

An owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain.

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"Crofter" Quotes from Famous Books

... he sought out certain dependable individuals and put them through a rough rehearsal. This he did before he claimed the room he had engaged by wire at the Hotel Crofter. The Hotel Crofter snuggled its lesser bulk under an imposing flank of the supposedly exclusive and admittedly expensive Churchill-Fontenay. From its verandas one might command a view of the main ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... is the point. Once get your name in the papers at the end of a two-column letter and you are the friend of all the world—it gives one an entree to the castle of the Duke and the cottage of the crofter." ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 • Various

... the same, I suppose your grand relations would consider me a presumptuous boor for daring to lift my eyes to you. And yet, if I could make you love me, it wouldn't count for a blade of grass that your father was born in a castle and mine in a crofter's cabin.... Only—you know too—' he became timid and hesitant again—'you know it isn't that I don't feel you as far above me, almost, as those stars ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... grass, and two roads: the one to the left, the other to the right. Right before them, filling up the way they ought to take in order to carry out Elsie's plan of keeping straight on, stood a tiny crofter's cottage, surrounded by its meagre crops enclosed within low stone walls. Beyond it the ground began to rise into hills, and far away in the distance rose the ...

— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various

Words linked to "Crofter" : small farmer