| 单词 | cottar |
| 例句 | The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He was a cottar and fisherman, having a half lot from another tenant. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Poor cottars killed and hamlets burned, in pure sport! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z This fall is still talked of at the firesides of the dalesmen of the north—cottars, farmers, and "statesmen"—as one of the most wonderful and dazzling achievements ever witnessed in the wrestling ring. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z From that book, we learn that over the greater part of England, villeins, cottars or bordars, and slaves made up the whole of the population of the country apart from the governing classes. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z It was seldom that the son of a cottar, or the son of any one else, left the school at such an age so far advanced. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 Next day, the steward was commanded to issue an order, that every cottar upon the estate must either sell his cow, or pay for its grass to a farmer. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 He was now obliged to take shelter with his family in an outhouse, which had been occupied by a cottar. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 It was the moorsmen and cottars of Scotland, who defied three kingdoms, and fought on with the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other, that saved the liberties of nations. Victory out of Ruin The tawdry mysticism and the borrowings from Freemasonry serve the low-caste Swede and the Dane, the Welshman and the Cornish cottar, just as well as a highly organised Heaven. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel One of them is old Willie Duncan, a cottar of mine; and who the lame man is that is with him I know not. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 "Then forgets he not his cottars in his absence," he added. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative He was dressed in countryman's apparel, and seemed most like a chapman, with a small pack of goods upon his back for sale in the farm-towns and cottars' houses. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Three contracts that are reversed by the decision of a judge: the contracts of a woman, of a son, of a cottar. The Triads of Ireland The cottars of the neighbouring village were on other accounts in more than usually depressed circumstances at the time. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. My living cost me nothing; my voice was good, and a supper and bed to the pedlar-boy, were the purchase of my songs, at the cottar's or the farmer's ingle. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 "But he is a mud-crusted cottar with matted hair," insisted Leo. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II The cottar, who had retained his effrontery until now, shrank from the ordeal, and declined to touch the body, running at once out of the hall, through Bakewell village, in the direction of Ashford. Bygone Punishments At that time, say 1830, Torthorwald was a busy and thriving village, and comparatively populous, with its cottars and crofters, large farmers and small farmers, weavers and shoemakers, doggers and coopers, blacksmiths and tailors. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals Like the cottar or the swain, Gentle shepherd, or the herd; Rest thou till the morn again, Bonny bird! Revised Edition of Poems He is sitting in a cottar’s house, reading the Bible to an old bedridden woman, the farm servants gathered round to get his word. Spare Hours An old Glenlednock farmer still living in the parish informs us that in his recollection there were thirty-six tenants with their cottars, where there are now five and a few shepherds. Chronicles of Strathearn The gentleman told me, in the course of the evening, that his father was a poor cottar in Sutherlandshire. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. Ye have riven the thatch off seven cottars' houses—look if your roof-tree stands the faster. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North They are in general in the cottar system, of paying for labour by assigning some land to each cabin. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 I would sooner be a cottar in Auchnagoul down there, with porridge for my every meal, than constable, chastiser, what not, or whatever I am, of all these vexed Highlands. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Why are the caudal appendages of the cottar's cow and calf adorned with red thread? and wherefore are horse-shoes nailed to stable-doors, ships' masts, and buried under thresholds? The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Amid the vicissitudes of his career he responds to the cottar's summons, "Let us worship God." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Her great-uncle, the little grey-headed old cottar in the Highland bonnet, lay dying�-in the Highland bonnet still. Alec Forbes of Howglen Here are few cottars without a cow, and some of them two. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses; look if your ain rooftree stand the faster. Thackeray No one could now show more pride of race than Aslaug, the poor cottar's daughter. The Bridal March; One Day These are surely but cottars' bairns," he said, smiling a little at his own intensity of feeling, "but they sing like little angels. The Black Douglas The cottar, the bordar, and the labourer were bound to help in the work of the home-farm throughout the year. History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 Also large tracts rented by villages, the cottars dividing it among themselves, and making the mountain common for their cattle. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 A real case of distress was never turned away from his doors, but where rent could be paid he insisted on the cottars giving him his due. The Rebel of the School Still more wretched is the condition of the cottars and squatters. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Then said the ladye, "My eyes were closed, And I never did see this wondrous man; And the cottar woman she hath deposed He was gone ere his features she could scan." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. —Novelist, s. of a poor Irish cottar, b. and brought up among the Irish peasantry, acquired an insight into their ideas and feelings which has never been equalled. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar dares to refuse to execute. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 "Only the witless carls and cottar folk are so simple as to believe that she has aught of evil in her words." The Thirsty Sword Do they still hold their place by the cottar's fireside, or are they becoming only a reminiscence of what was once a national distinction? Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Young soon got to work, and became anxious to persuade his employer to let his lands direct to the occupying cottar, and so get rid of the middlemen. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays Here Reinbert has one villein and four cottars with one plough—and wood for six hogs and two fisheries of sixpence and a mill of ten shillings—unum molinum—one mill. Traffics and Discoveries Dancing is so universal among them, that there are everywhere itinerant dancing-masters, to whom the cottars pay sixpence a quarter for teaching their families. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 It was a cart the cottar used in the cultivation of his little holding, and his son who drove it, now nearly middle-aged, was likely to succeed to the hut and acres of Bogsheuch. Salted with Fire A young man from a big farm could not behave like a lad from a cottar's holding. Wanderers There was an ancient servant, or rather cottar, of her father's, who had lived under him for many years, and whose fidelity was worthy of full confidence. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 Ye have riven the roof off seven cottar houses—look if your own roof-tree stand the faster. The Junior Classics — Volume 5 It came upon the still air a fairy tinkle, and many a cottar and many a shepherd turned over with a comfortable feeling: "This is the Sabbath morn; I need not rise so soon to-day." The Lilac Sunbonnet Then perhaps I may find a cottar's croft somewhere and settle down and marry a dairymaid. The Great Hunger Ye have riven the back off seven cottar houses—look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. Guy Mannering It was the dwelling of a cottar, whose family had been settled upon the farm of Bodyfauld from time immemorial. Robert Falconer The same afternoon, the laird questioned his tenant of the Mains concerning his cottars; and was assured that better or more respectable people were not in all the region of Gormgarnet. Sir Gibbie One such spot was rather to be shunned by the superstitious, for here, about 1698, a cottar family had been evicted by endless unaccountable disturbances in the house. Angling Sketches When it came to making the iron ribbons for the sleigh runners he had to go across to the smithy; and there stood a cottar at work roughing horseshoes. The Great Hunger The best were selected for the use of the principal farmers, the others divided among their shepherds, cottars, dependants, and others of inferior rank who attended. Guy Mannering They were, indeed, like other cottars, a kind of feudal dependents, occupying an acre or two of the land, in return for which they performed certain stipulated labour, called cottar-wark. Robert Falconer It was the abode of a cottar, and was a dependency of the farm he had just left. Sir Gibbie At night some slept on the floor of the hall and others, cottars and bordars, had there own dwellings nearby. Our Legal Heritage The cottar was an old man of seventy; his wife was nearly sixty. Sir Gibbie |
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