Sum of rents of assize of the aforesaid cotters yearly, 31s.
Names of the cotters and rents of assize of their tenements and the customs of the same.
The Sorenskriver was coming down from the birch-woods, alone and apparently in a disagreeable mood, for he pushed roughly on one side the little golden-haired daughter of one of the cotters who was playing on the hillside.
Knutty found her way to the cowhouse and learnt from her favourite Mette that all the servants and cotters were having a splendid meal too.
A sumptuous dinner was to be given to the neighbouring lairds, and the cotters were to be fed and regaled on the green opposite to the mansion.
Nothing has been done for the cotters who have no land at all; nothing for fishermen, who are, if possible, worse off at the end of the fishing season than they were at the beginning.
Some cotters were at hand and seeing them gave me the idea of using one leg, with the eye part, as a tongue.
The first half of the shelf is fastened in place, then a row of cotters attached with wood screws whereupon the other half of the shelf is put in place.
Illustration: The Spindles for the Spools are Made of Cotters Fastened with Screws in the Shelves] While no dimensions are necessary, as the box can be of any size to suit the maker it may be mentioned that the one shown is 28 in.
All the class of small cotters have generally used the produce of their con-acres at this season, and they commence to buy--the work which they always have in abundance in the spring enabling them to pay.
The wretched cotters who are being everywhere expelled from the land are forced to take refuge in cities and towns, precisely as we see now to be the case in Ireland.
In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.
Landlords of consequence had assured Young that many of their cotters would think themselves honoured by having their wives and daughters sent for to the bed of their masters.
On such a scene of misery as the abodes of the Irish cotters the sun has rarely looked down.
It is thus that, in our own times, the small tenants and cotters have been so generally dispossessed in Scotland and Ireland, to make room for the large cultivator or store farmer.
The annals of these times will transmit no account of fortunes made by pillaging or taxing the cotters of Ireland, the weavers of Paisley, or the cotton-piecers of Manchester.
The oft-mentioned description of Stoneleigh in that document begins of course with the demesne land of the abbot, then mentions two villains and thirty free cotters holding 'ad terminum vitae.
Still the division into principal tenants, mesne tenants, and cotters is clearly discernible, and the principal tenants are called free in the manor itself as well as in the hamlets.
The names of virgaters and cotters are certainly mentioned for the sake of clearness, but it would be wrong to consider the duties ascribed to them as aiming at the person.
The cotters made similar payments and performed similar labors, though less in amount.
In general usage the words villanus, nativus, servus, custumarius, and rusticus are synonymous, and the cotters belonged legally to the same servile class.
The villains andcotters were in bondage to the lord of the manor.
If there are set-screws at the side of the cotters, they should be tight, and all cotters should have a split-pin at the bottom for greater security.
The cotters must be secure, and in case the brasses have too much play they must be tightened up; observing, however, that brasses should never be set so hard as to cause friction.
The truth was that the cotters who had lived in the Swamp, now covered with mansions, had no name.
Most of thecotters whom Sternhold had transhipped to America thirty years or more previous, were dead and buried--that is to say, the old people were.
These paupers include cotters and labourers, as well as the ruined among the smaller yeomen.
The more opulent estimated their annual loss at one-fifth of the increase; and in unfavorable situations, where many cotters were established, they found the preservation of their stock impossible, and relinquished the attempt in despair.
Their migratory habits were unfavorable to official supervision, and the success of humane suggestions depended on the doubtful concurrence of ignorant cotters and wandering shepherds.
He had left her a commission which any kind-hearted girl would have thought a delightful one--to arrange with the factor how the cotters were to be most effectually helped and provided for.
It's almost become a custom here now, my husband says, for thecotters to get half the harvest of the farm's outlying fields.
Meanwhile, the cotters who are cultivating the soil will probably go on harvesting half the crop of the outlying fields for the rest of time.
It was a long way between neighbors here; one or two cotters had cleared an area in the forest, which they had then bought; apart from that, all the land in sight belonged to the farm.
The fact was that every time these cotters wanted to buy a fresh piece of land from Paul, her husband had to give his consent.
My husband often says it will end with the cotters or their children buying this whole place of his, Paul's.
But even yet he felt he had not appeared important enough, so he turned round and asked: "Why didn't you take one of my cotters with you to act as porter?
Paul's head was bent now, but he seemed even more hurt that the manufacturer should have paid a visit to the cotters to see how they were getting on.
It was no small area these cottershad broken up; the homesteads were tiny but the fences surrounding the land included a good section of forest.
The cotters had got their hay indoors during the patient spell.
But he was more gravely concerned for those whose advocate he had made himself--for the ignorant cotters in their lowly hovels, the women, the children, upon whom the inevitable punishment would fall.
She saw now that it was not in that remote corner, it was not with such forces as they could command, it was not with a handful of cotters and peasants, that Ireland could be saved, or the true faith restored!
The seven or eight owners have combined to inclose and sell or let for building purposes all that tract of moor, and the cotters have lost their privilege of keeping cows.
In Bridestowe there is a tract of open land on which the poor cotters have, from time immemorial, kept their cows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
