We don't want him, says Crofterthe Orangeman or presbyterian.
Kings might die in the great world beyond—that was a matter of minor interest to them as compared with the death of a six-weeks-old piglet belonging to a crofter at Cool Hill.
For he would have been quite content to go about in his shabby clothes and let folks think him nothing but a poor crofter to the end of his days.
He's only a poor crofterlike myself; so him you'll not miss, of course.
This man was a crofter and weaver, having a wife and nine children to provide for.
Mrs. Macdonell and her factor determined to evict every crofter on her property, to make room for sheep.
They compare favourably as regards size, design, and workmanship with the best and most modern crofter houses in the Ardnamurchan district.
On the contrary, he is very kind to his crofter tenantry, but unfortunately for him he inherits the fruits of a bad policy which has been the ruin of the Rannoch estates.
A crofter came to the manse to complain about his wife's unruly and satirical tongue.
Not long ago, a poor crofter in a Hebridean township, came to his minister, requesting that good man's offices for the christening of a child.
This old crofter tells how he used to chaff the future professor for invariably having a book in front of him as the shuttle was plied.
The crofter in question was the possessor of an asthmatic old concertina, and the clergyman, before the rite of admission to the visible church could be performed, insisted on the annihilation of the ungodly instrument of music.
In Broadford, Skye, there is an old crofter who, in his early years, worked at the loom with Alexander Bain, late Professor in the University of Aberdeen.
Rasmie is a Shetland crofter who is typical of the race: shrewd, kindly, thoughtful, and gifted with a touch of quaint sarcasm.
At Kilmartin, the jubilee of Queen Victoria was signalized by the erection of the Poltalloch Victoria Hall--an enterprise in which laird and crofter alike willingly co-operated.
Then the crofter bent over him and looked straight into his eyes.
Crofter Nils will think himself a real farmer when he can drive a plough that Big Ingmar himself has used.
When she saw old Crofter Nils trying to choose a plow she smiled a little scornfully.
Crofter did so--and revealed, in a nest of black velvet, a small piece of exquisite pottery.
The stubborn crofter was silent after that--standing aside in sombre indifference.
But Crofter had sense enough of his own dignity to feel that he had been slighted by Tempest: and Tempest and his friends had no inclination to heal the trouble, or assume an attitude of friendliness they did not feel.
Crofter evidently was expecting to be the recipient of an outburst of effusive gratitude.
Here, by an odd chance, just as we came to the school gate, we met Mr Jarman and Crofter walking out in deep confabulation.
For it was my fault, and mine only, that Crofter was at this moment captain of Sharpe's.
The more I thought it over the more I felt Crofter was a brick, and had been scandalously misunderstood.
Crofter made no reference to it, but said-- "Those bills you paid for me last term, Jones iv.
It was extremely inconvenient all round; for it made it necessary for Crofter to bestir himself, while of course it seemed to threaten Tempest's chance of recovering his place.
If knuckling under to Jarman is a condition, I'm out of it, and Crofter is welcome to it.
It was even harder work to prevail upon them as a matter of policy to accept the temporary supremacy of Crofter in the house.
He hopes Crofter will not tell him he told him, as he would be very angry with him.
For some time Crofter sculled on in silence, giving me directions now and again to keep in the stream, or take the boat well out at the corners--which I considered superfluous.
Before we adjourned for the night the question of Tempest and Crofter came up, a propos of a report, which some one mentioned, that Tempest had entered for the Open Mile against Redwood, and was expected to prove a warm customer.
It was recited to me, over against Dun-I, by a friend who is a crofter in that part of Iona.
The last time I was told of it was of a crofter and his wife in North Uist.
The factor made a brief communication: the taciturn crofter answered not a word--not a word of recognition, much less of thanks.
Before the scheme would work, the crofter would have to be given land worth at least L20 a year; and where is the capital to come from for stock and steading?
She herself or one of the othercrofter women of the townland would sing to us the mouth-music.
The houseman is twisting twigs of heather into ropes to hold down thatch, a neighbour crofter is twining quicken root into cords to tie cows, while another is plaiting bent grass into baskets to hold meal.
There were leases to renew, and there was some question about a number of crofter families, which seemed to have been debated with the former lord, and to have formed the subject of much discussion.
I would have put the Crofter question before him in all its bearings; but he was just out of himself at the idea of eviction--like what happened in Ireland, he said.
The instance referred to is in the person of a young man barely yet "of age," named Finlay Mackinnon, a crofter at Poolewe.
A crofter and carter now living at Londubh is a great-grandson of the Sasunnach Mor; the last Mackenzie of Kernsary testified, in the presence of persons now living, to the descent of this Londubh crofterfrom the Sasunnach Mor.
Whilst doing his duty as a crofter he struggles to progress in art, and has in fact made painting his profession.
Of course each crofter has a dwelling-house, besides byre and barn, mostly very humble structures.
In the first place, the high rents given for deer forests must have the result of reducing local taxation, and this affects the smallestcrofter as well as the largest farmer.
The average stock of each crofterin Gairloch is two or three cows, one stirk, and five to ten sheep; a few horses or ponies are also kept.
The chief articles of diet of the crofter population are fish, either fresh or cured, oatmeal, potatoes, and milk, with a little butcher meat occasionally.
He became a crofter in his native country, and married a woman of exemplary patience and resignation.
Item, one Highland estate, seriously damaged by the Crofter Commission, and an ancestral tree, ditto, by Darwinism.
And how did William expect to supply the Big House as it should be supplied, when every crofterbody was asking one and eightpence a pound for butter she wouldn't look at?
The fact being that until the age of fifteen he had been nothing more than the son of a poor crofter on the estate of Gleneira.
So forbidding and gloomy was the aspect of the place that our stout crofter hesitated, and it was all that we could do to persuade him to proceed.
The crofter who owned the lurcher dog lived a couple of miles off, so it was time for us to be on foot.
Ay, dear lady, dear lady, my father was an honest crofter there.
He had seen a crofter whom he knew very well dozing during the sermon, and had "wagged his fist" at him--righteously indignant.
In many country districts like ours the task of instructing the young devolved upon one or other of the better educated of the crofter class.
A gigantic crofter question is impending, and this agrarian agitation for more land is likely enough to make nihilism a more formidable thing in the future than it has been in the past.
Then," the crofter said bluntly, "if you be Archibald Forbes, you may even take your message yourself.
But where can a poor crofter body like me get the siller, think ye?
Captain Flett told me to get the slate and pencil from below, and as the crofter gave his orders for the articles required I wrote these down under the initial item, "Needles, 1d.
He had heard of the dividend the Crofter Fisheries were paying, and what he would have to give now for the shares which he had committed to the flames.
But I was working in the right direction, and the crofter grievances came as a godsend to me about a year ago.
The train took an hour to feel its way to Richmond: it was worse than the hour spent in the waiting-room of the Crofter Fisheries, Limited.
The man impressed me as a falsehood-teller when he came to my house, and I feel sure that the prospectus of this new Crofter Company, which reached me this morning, is nothing but a tissue of untruths from beginning to end.
Hartington House proved to be a modern pile with a lift worked by a smart boy in buttons; and the offices of the Crofter Fisheries, Limited, occupied the whole of one floor.
Myra had disappeared into the kitchen regions to give first-aid to a bare-legged crofter laddie who had cut his foot on a broken bottle.
And as she could think of no other likely person, and the crofter seemed out of the question, we had to confess ourselves puzzled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crofter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
