英语词汇“crofter”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

I had my share of fishwives and crofter's daughters, before and after I was wed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was a crofter’s daughter, she loved me and she wed me, she put her trust in me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The crofters had left behind a good supply of peat when they fled, so the air was hazy with smoke and the rich, earthy smell of burning turf. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter's cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child's wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was a crofter's child, orphaned when her father died of fever, on her way to . . . well, nowhere, really. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They passed a crofter's cottage, deserted and overgown, and skirted a flooded quarry where the still water had a sheen as grey as steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Command? Me? M’lord knows I’m just a crofter’s get, on the Wall for poaching?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The crofter’s village stood between two lakes, the larger dotted with small wooded islands that punched up through the ice like the frozen fists of some drowned giant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We are never told why the Glasgow lad of “Found Wanting” settles for the solicitor, who carries him off to Edinburgh, instead of writing back to the lonely crofter’s son. A Booker Prize Winner Takes On First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

It provided cooking and heating fuel for crofters for generations and the ritual labour of its slow extraction and drying became a crucial part of the culture of Gaelic-speaking Hebrideans. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

We are city people pretending to be Highland crofters: your holiday is just a reality TV show, a friend laughed at us. Postcard from the future: Tiree, Scotland, my ‘dream of an island’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

One of the most compelling chapters is concerned with a path across the Isle of Lewis to shielings, or stone shelters, built by crofters near their summer grazing grounds. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review 2012-05-31T07:00:02Z

No doubt that it would have been a totally different story if the narrator would have replied to Gregor, the crofter’s son, first, and they could have stumbled onward together. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Last year Halls, a marine biologist, went off to be a crofter on the Applecross peninsula in the Scottish Highlands for six months. Monty Halls' Great Hebridean Escape and Three in a Bed 2010-04-21T23:05:00Z

Jamieson is a transplant from Liverpool, England, as well as a crofter on the island. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Andrew Carnegie was a crofter's lad who emigrated from Scotland to America and became a billionaire. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z

This period coincided with a family move from London to the Isle of Skye, where Horsfall rambled over mountains and became a dedicated crofter, producing fruit and vegetables. Bernard Horsfall obituary 2013-01-30T18:14:17Z

The small museum offers a comprehensive look at the history of South Uist, including the life of the crofter. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The number of weavers – all self-employed, some crofters working part-time on their looms in sheds beside their homes as they juggled seasonal weaving with running smallholdings and other part-time jobs – had fallen below 100. Harris tweed returns to global boutiques after islands' renaissance 2012-11-09T16:45:33Z

Over the last decade crofters in the Highlands say that hundreds of their lambs have been taken by sea eagles. Dogs trained to defend sheep from sea eagles 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Cathy Dagg, a crofter and archaeologist who has lived there for 43 years, said conserving water was never far from their minds. Warning Scotland faces threat of water shortages 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

But farmers' union NFU Scotland said any proposals to reintroduce lynx were unacceptable to farmers and crofters. MSPs to discuss proposals for return of lynx to Scotland 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

She is a crofter, hairdresser and holiday accommodation owner. The 'enigmatic' peatbog seeking worldwide recognition 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

However, he prefers to portray himself as a "simple crofter" - he farms sheep in Skye, and frequently posts pictures of them online. Ian Blackford: Why has SNP Westminster chief stepped down? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

In late spring, the crofter will revert to an ancient practice of cutting and burning peat for fuel, and will also have to put up the price of the eggs he sells. Hebrides: Life on beautiful islands with the UK's worst fuel poverty 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

But the land around the rockets hangar and launch pad must remain available to crofters for agricultural use. Moray rocket test launch pad 'first in 50 years' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

In the middle of the 19th Century, the land on Knoydart was cleared of crofters and turned over to sheep and deer. Community in race to buy remotest mainland pub 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

The subject was raised at Prime Minister's Questions, where Mr Blackford - himself a crofter - said a tariff-free deal with Australia "would be the final nail in the coffin for many Scottish crofters and farmers". Brexit: Boris Johnson prepared to throw farmers under bus, says SNP 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

For centuries the land has been grazed by sheep owned by local crofters, who cherish uninterrupted views of Orkney to the east and an archipelago of smaller islands sitting closer to shore. Residents of remote Scottish peninsula face up to its future as spaceport 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

The letter's signatories - which includes crofters, development officers and Gaelic campaigners - said 40% of housing stock on both Tiree in the Inner Hebrides and West Harris in the Western Isles were holiday homes. Islanders fear 'clearance' over house prices 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z

There was one from a boy who was younger than I was, a crofter’s son who lived in the remotest corner of the Scottish Highlands, not another soul for years and miles. “Found Wanting” 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

In 1948, a group of crofters known as the Seven Men of Knoydart launched a "land raid" in a bid to seize back the land and live independently from the landlord system. Community in race to buy remotest mainland pub 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

You would think the island crofters who knit these things would notice the problem before they got three breasts across. What a boob! Why this fair isle jumper is turning heads 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

“We negotiated for ages. I think we drove HIE mad. We wanted to protect crofters’ rights.” Residents of remote Scottish peninsula face up to its future as spaceport 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

This would ensure farmers and crofters working in challenging conditions received the most support. Brexit 'an opportunity' for fairer farm funding 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

As I watched the girls, I thought about the crofter’s son, the young Highlander who wrote as though he were unworthy of an answer. “Found Wanting” 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Dr Drake said local crofters and Scottish government representatives were involved in the plan to protect the site from further damage. Meteorite hunters target Skye impact site 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Among the inhabitants are crofters with cattle and sheep, a violin maker, a Russian translator, volunteers and a part-time postal worker. The remote UK community living off-grid 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Rent from the spaceport and a promised share of its income will help Melness crofters regenerate the peat bog and invest in the community, she said. Residents of remote Scottish peninsula face up to its future as spaceport 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

MCE is set to work with HIE on the project following a ballot of crofters. Spaceport project to move to next stage 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Other crofters and residents in the area support the building of the spaceport, which could be linked to a mission control located at another, still to be confirmed, site in the Highlands. Campaign opposes planned spaceport 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The steam ploughs required huge amounts of manpower, and the crofters were becoming increasingly sceptical of the benefits the machines were bringing. Stars and gripes: Crumbling president's Scottish tour 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

The dispute gathered column inches; the crofters’ chairman swore that they would go to jail rather than comply. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

The technology is to be trialled in Argyll, an area where crofters and farmers have had issues with the raptors preying on lambs. Laser beams could deter sea eagles 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

“It’s a real misconception that folk have about Hebridean crofter types,” said Maggie. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

But some crofters have concerns about its impact on the environment, local roads and crofting rights. Campaign opposes planned spaceport 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

They work as crofters, the sustainable farming practice that uses the the Hebridean islands' salty peat. Mealtimes reflect UK family life 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The crofters have worked hard to escape their debts and to make the community sustainable. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Ross Lilley, SNH's Sea Eagle Project manager, said the "serious concerns" of some farmers and crofters about the impact of sea eagles on livestock had been acknowledged. Laser beams could deter sea eagles 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

In the novel, it is not the laird who strikes fear into the crofters or even his factor. Writer returns to the scene of his bloody project 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Her interests are broad – from Nomads in Tibet and crofters in Orkney, to landscape archaeology and the stories behind artefacts discovered by members of the public in Britain. The first shovelful: introducing our new archaeology and anthropology blog 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

An inventory of 25 regulations governing the lives of crofters in Lewis in 1881 brought home to me the draconian nature of the regimes under which the native population lived. How to write a Man Booker novel: six shortlisted authors share their secrets 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Having declined a voluntary cull, the crofters were threatened with a section 8 order – a forced cull. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Furthermore, this cannot be used as an excuse for any further delays in the distribution of CAP payments to farmers and crofters. EU farm payments deadline extended to October - BBC News 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

In its examination of the character of the crofters and the conditions that existed in the Highlands the book is not entirely a crime novel. Writer returns to the scene of his bloody project 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

As a crofter, he receives subsidies under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. EU Referendum: Are the Western Isles the most Eurosceptic part of Britain? - BBC News 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

It has a dark history of clan warfare and later of the brutal “clearances”, when crofters were forced off the land to make way for the more profitable ventures of sheep farming and gaming estates. How to write a Man Booker novel: six shortlisted authors share their secrets 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

A compromise agreement that would be acceptable to both crofters and conservationists is still being hammered out. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

It is due to be paid out to farmers and crofters before a 30 June deadline. Minister Fergus Ewing apologises for EU farm payments 'chaos' - BBC News 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Burnet says he was "shocked" when he was researching the novel to discover the terrible conditions that crofters lived under. Writer returns to the scene of his bloody project 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Scottish government said it was focused on paying crofters and farmers before the 30 June deadline. Ministers aware of rural payments conflict of interest - BBC News 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

He was born in Inverness and grew up in a remote crofter's cottage in the Highlands. Life in pictures: Charles Kennedy - BBC News 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The crofters would be fined £40,000 for failing to manage deer numbers responsibly, and would have to pay the costs of the operation – a sum that would likely far eclipse the fine. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mr Kennedy was born in Inverness and grew up in a remote crofter's cottage in the Highlands. The Charles Kennedy Story - BBC News 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

At that time the crofters found it hard to reach the main town, Stornoway, as they were too busy weaving tweed. Money on wheels: Banking goes mobile 2014-04-22T23:03:46Z

A sea eagle management scheme, which provided support for farmers and crofters in the north west of Scotland, ended last year. Calls to control sea eagles rejected 2014-01-27T18:34:08Z

Dr Elizabeth Ritchie, a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of the Highlands and Islands, said granting an inquiry was a major concession to land reformers and crofters from the government. Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z

Aberdeen Angus was the first breed to have been used for bulls and they bred with the crofters' Highland and Shorthorn cross bred cows. Rent-a-stud: Government bulls-for-hire 2013-04-29T10:40:43Z

But crofters are struggling to keep their animals fed and watered. Skye stays dry as the rain reigns 2012-07-20T13:17:33Z

The estate on Lewis was taken over by crofters in a community buy-out five years ago. New land fund to open for bids 2012-06-29T00:38:43Z

Sheep-farming on a large scale was next introduced, and the crofters were thrust into villages or barren corners of the land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z

"The commission itself was welcomed by crofters, and greeted with a mix of suspicion and anger by estate management." Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z

After World War II, bulls were still offered free of charge but crofters had to contribute to the cost of over-wintering the animals at Inverness. Rent-a-stud: Government bulls-for-hire 2013-04-29T10:40:43Z

It has raised rents on certain estates, is an argument used by landlords, who forget to tell you that where rents have been raised they have been compelled to give back pasture-land to the crofters. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

What else there is can be only regarded as subsidiary to the main arrangement: the cotters and crofters are not tenants in the403 fields, but gardeners, labourers, craftsmen, herdsmen, and the like. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z

Matters, however, were not really mended, and in 1884 a royal commission reported upon the condition of the crofters of the islands and mainland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z

Two of its leaders toured the Highlands in an effort to help as many crofters as possible prepare their evidence. Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z

This season, 97 bulls will be hired out to 84 groups, again involving about 400 crofters. Rent-a-stud: Government bulls-for-hire 2013-04-29T10:40:43Z

A crofter, after working all day, often has to sit up all night to keep these beasts, which were supposed to be private property, out of his little croft. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

There are no other habitations of any kind except a few crofters' cottages across the lake. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z

A history of the legislation dealing with the crofters is given in the article Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z

"It helped to politicise and organise crofters, who took national and local opportunities to push demands for land reform." Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z

The government said without the subsidy it would have cost crofters £3,400. Rent-a-stud: Government bulls-for-hire 2013-04-29T10:40:43Z

Only by a polite figure of speech can the stone pile in which the Hebridean crofter makes his home be called a cottage. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

The lake is decidedly rough this morning, but still we thought we must row across to some crofters' cottages. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z

His father had once been a prosperous crofter or small farmer. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z

And what of Meanish Pier where marines landed 130 years ago to quell restless crofters? Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z

I inquire of a crofter how far it is to Inverness. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z

Slaves at least represented so much money; but the crofter was and is less valuable to the laird than his sheep and his deer. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

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. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z

The last time I was told of it was of a crofter and his wife in North Uist. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z

In 2009, a crofter uncovered an ancient anchor while digging a drain on the Isle of Skye. Aerial surveys of Viking shipyard 2011-05-05T05:58:32Z

They were evicted crofters from Perthshire, and misfortune, not drink or vice, had brought them so low. Notes on Old Edinburgh 2011-05-03T02:00:17.180Z

This was the one thing which the landlord, despite all his rights, could not do with his crofters. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Russia is, in fact, a vast continent of crofters, practising primitive husbandry on mere "cat's-plots" of land, and depending for the greater part of their subsistence on some auxiliary trade. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z

On so small an island, inhabited by less than a score of crofters, it was scarcely possible for one to live for many weeks and not know the name and face of every soul. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z

Murdie says that the most seriously affected crofters complain they are losing 10 lambs a year. Are birds of prey back? 2011-03-04T10:35:24Z

The crofter is among a handful who continue traditional farming methods in the 21st Century. Crofter 'last' to swim cattle over the sea to Skye 2011-02-11T12:39:09Z

In the Hebrides, the landlord has always had rights; the crofter, until the passing of the Crofters' Bill of 1886, had none. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

In one respect they have the advantage over our Scotch crofters; they practise, in many cases, skilled trades. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z

Here Lady Cathcart, of England, has mercifully established a colony of crofters, rescued from poverty and oppression. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z

Ms. Norgrove, who was from a remote crofter’s cottage in the western isles of Scotland, was kidnapped by the Taliban in the mountainous eastern province of Kunar on Sept. U.S. Rescuers May Have Killed Briton Held by Taliban 2010-10-11T17:29:00Z

Campbell tells us that the Scottish crofters and shepherds were wont to put off their bonnets when they recited it. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race

The crofter is a slave not only to landlord and factor, but often to the merchant. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

The crofter's house may be poor, but it rings with the shouting of children at play, and love spreads its endless feast. Stand Up, Ye Dead

Scottish nationality was another source of enthusiasm with him; and in this connexion he displayed real sympathy with Highland home life and the grievances of the crofters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"

No fiction, said Father Grant, himself a crofter's son, could be more absurd than this. Memoirs of Life and Literature

Two trips of the Mermaid—the Craft only when her young owners were by themselves—conveyed the entire party on board the Kelpie, whose crew, consisting of Rob MacLean and another crofter, were in readiness. The Adventure League

He can afford to ignore the Campbells of the Outer Hebrides; but let him fight with his deadliest weapons against the crofters who to-day pay him rent. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Where many crofters had once tilled the soil, only a lone shepherd was now found, meditating on scenes of desolation. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba

She was born in a remote and thinly inhabited district of the Highlands, and lost her father, a Highland crofter, while yet an infant. Leading Articles on Various Subjects

"Yes you can," said the crofter, with a wink and a fearful whisper, "You can keep her off!" Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

Improvements were not confined to the crofters' holdings; they extended to the castle farm and to the castle itself. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure

But landlords as they exist, or crofters, must go before there can be more than negative improvement in the islands. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

For several years the crofters in this section of the Highlands had been ejected in ruthless fashion from their holdings. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba

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

On recovering consciousness, I found myself lying on a crofter's bed, with aching limbs. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

They were mere huts, but, nevertheless, they were far more comfortable in every way than many a crofter's cottage in the Scottish Highlands. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure

This is the extravagance with which the crofters have been reproached. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

The Highland crofter, on the other hand, rarely owns even a pig! Through Finland in Carts

Even when she had stayed in the crofter's cottage she had not felt worse. Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young

You may breathe freely, you and your Cabinet, for spite of your slips and blunders, the Ross-shire crofters will not turn round and rend you. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

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

If this be so, if crofters of to-day, compared to their ancestors, live in luxury, then has the time indeed come when something should be done for them. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

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. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young

I cannot see why Liberals did not liberate public-houses or Conservatives conserve crofters. What I Saw in America

Winter with its long nights gives leisure to the remote glensmen and crofters. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

When there was a superfluity of fish the crofters and tenants were supplied first, and then anything that was left over was sent to friends in London and elsewhere. The Mystery of the Green Ray

In three cases at least crofters were turned from their crofts because they gave evidence to the Commissioners of 1883. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

And if the children had been elsewhere than in the crofter's lonely cottage they must have been discovered, as there was every chance that they would be before long. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young

A Highland laird and lady, visiting some of their crofters on the moors, are met and escorted by a delighted wife to her cot. James Watt

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. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

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 Mystery of the Green Ray

If Irishmen, protected by a Land League, refuse to pay rent, so do Scotch crofters. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

We are quite satisfied from experience, that the small crofter is quite incapable of profitably reclaiming much of our Highland Wastes without capital, and at the same time bring up a family. 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.

Ten to one the proud Highland crofter and his circle reap more genuine, unalloyed satisfaction from the message than the lowland statesman and his circle could reap from his. James Watt

Rasmie is a Shetland crofter who is typical of the race: shrewd, kindly, thoughtful, and gifted with a touch of quaint sarcasm. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

"The Admiral was telling me that a London brain specialist was born in one of those crofter's huts." The Long Trick

J—— asked him what he thought about the crofter question. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

As they drew near Elsie could see that the tiny tenement was only some crofter's cottage, and that the walls enclosed his bit of land, not large enough to dignify with the name of farm. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)

Boden was a pleasant home to the Harrisons', for they were a large family, simple crofters, content in each other's society, and cherishing no earthly ambition. Viking Boys

Another of his stories had reference to two old crofters, both over eighty, who began one evening to talk of the follies of the young fisher-lads when they took to dram-drinking. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

You could live at the Ritz or Waldorf a good deal cheaper than in some of these crofter's cottages. The Long Trick

"I will be a real old Land Leaguer every time," he declared; and then he went on to tell us that in his part of the island the crofters held together like one man. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Then it suddenly dawned upon her that their friend of the cart was most likely one of these crofters, whose poverty and hardships she had often heard her mother and grandmother talk of. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)

In these days keep for beasts was scarce, and the crofters would be cutting green whins, and pounding them between flat stones and feeding cattle and horse with them. The McBrides A Romance of Arran

The audience I addressed was the most miscellaneous I have ever seen: there were boatmen and barristers, anglers and artists, curates and crofters, French and Germans. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

Most of the above remarks may apply alike to the home farm of the proprietor, to the large and small farmer, and to the crofter with one cow. Cattle and Cattle-breeders

They took interest in the evicted Irish, and ignored the existence of Highland crofters; they could tell us much of the fish, but nothing of the fishermen. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Elsie thought she had never seen anything so horrible as the sight that greeted her when she pushed the door wide open, and stood on the threshold of the crofter's home. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)

Harris Tweeds The "Harris Tweeds," made on the Island of Lewis and Harris, north of Scotland, are in the old style by the "crofters." Textiles and Clothing

The crofter's son has no reading-room with costly works of reference, scientific manuals, English translations of Latin authors, etc., to go to when he is in need of help. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

The crofter's cattle went down in the disease, and one of them died. Cattle and Cattle-breeders

One year of famine, to keep the crofters from starving, he emptied his own purse. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

As far as she could discover, these comprised the whole accommodation of the crofter's cottage. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)

But all the Scot—and perhaps the crofter—rose in Sir S. when I mourned over the little dusty feet. The Heather-Moon

To avoid the breach being healed by an apology, many of the crofters sought to envenom the quarrel by refusing to believe that the elder was altogether right. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

He was watered at a watering-place on the roadside, where a crofter's cattle watered daily. Cattle and Cattle-breeders

They have granted an average reduction of 42 per cent. on the rental of 150 crofter tenants in the parish of Barvas, on the west side of Lewis. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Dr. Clark and the crofters are its mode of expressing itself. Post-Prandial Philosophy

His father was a crofter on a little island somewhere near Skye. The Heather-Moon

A crofter came to the manse to complain about his wife's unruly and satirical tongue. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

Gowan proved to be but one of our own rough crofters who had acquired so thin a veneer of civilization that it scarcely concealed the reality beneath. Up in Ardmuirland

But the true story of the Highlands as they are I think we learned for ourselves when we looked, as we did at Ulva, from the laird's mansion to the crofter's hovel. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

The crofters were poor farmers, for they were rather fishermen. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba

Though a landlord in the Highlands he was beloved, for he was the friend of crofters, as rent was no object to him, and he did not particularly care for sport. The Disentanglers

It is not a difficult task, by means of suitable selections, to bring home to an audience of crofters the salient differences between the poetry of Pope and of Spenser. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

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. Up in Ardmuirland

To solve it is to explain the crofter question without the aid of a Royal Commission. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

To the willing crofter or Orkney boatmen this was not a great task, but to the Glasgow immigrant, or the lazy waiter-on-fortune this was hard work. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba

Now it was a Lowlander from Teviotdale that saw the man, and the crofters were delighted. The Disentanglers

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. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

He had seen a crofter whom he knew very well dozing during the sermon, and had "wagged his fist" at him—righteously indignant. Up in Ardmuirland

People who have never heard of crofters and their troubles can tell you all about St. Columba and his miracles. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Had Robert Gordon been a Highlander instead of a Lowlander; had he been a Ross-shire crofter instead of a small laird in Wigtown, he would have been one of the foremost of the well-known ‘men.’ Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents

But they set an example to many of their fellows, and the remarkable spectaclePg 33 was witnessed in more than one barrack room of these stalwart crofters engaged in family prayer. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa

The disputants had all the appearance of sensible crofters—they certainly talked more intelligibly than most commentators on Kant. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

He has a straight-forward, pleasant manner with him, and is altogether superior to an ordinary crofter. Up in Ardmuirland

Deer forests and large farms grow larger and larger; crofts shrink, until from the little patch of ground, long since over-worked, the crofter can no longer reap even that which he sows. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

At last they had succeeded in finding the crofter. Jerusalem

Rough, bearded crofters as many of them were,—men who had never been South before,—all these hymns sounded very foreign. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa

They play the part of grand patron; the people are proud to honor them; it is a condescension when they remember the name of the crofter's youngest boy. Macleod of Dare

Far away, at the foot of the hills a crofter's cow lowed lazily, calling forth a summons to be taken in and relieved of its burden of milk. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner

The crofter has no protection from the large tacksmen; if he makes a complaint he can get no redress. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Then the crofter bent over him and looked straight into his eyes. Jerusalem

His mother and he had been up in the mountains cutting gorse and ling, which with turf from the Curragh used to be the crofter's only fuel. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill

The poverty of the crofter often renders his condition deplorable. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

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. The Emperor of Portugalia

"They are all landlords in the House of Commons: what will they do for us?" the crofters and cotters of Lewis asked the other day. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Against the wishes of even the humblest crofter, the King would not, because he knows he could not, enter his cottage. The Congo and Coasts of Africa

He was born a peasant, the poorest of peasants, a crofter. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill

The latter are in some places numerous and have taken up considerable portions of land formerly used as common, thus interfering with the rights of the crofters. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Jack Paterson was a poor crofter, who added to his scanty means by going to the deep-sea fishing, or, out of the fishing season, by burning kelp. The Pilots of Pomona

In return the crofter's earnings, before he has gained them, belong to the merchant, who, moreover, is at times his employer as well as his creditor. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

A crofter's cottage in Scotland, or an Irish hovel with the pigs and children all living together, was a palace compared to that awful hole. Chateau and Country Life in France

You know what these crofter fellows are—ungrateful, vindictive rascals. In the Wrong Paradise

The dwellings of this class and of some of the poorer crofters are wretched in the extreme. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

However that may be, I'm not sure that the Orkney crofters would welcome such a new line of business. The Pilots of Pomona

The crofter's hut is felt to be a disgrace to the Highlands. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Well, the crofters have no leases, but the tacksmen have," said the girl somewhat timidly; and then she added, "But you have not decided yet, Mr. Ingram, what you will do to-day. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873

We find them in monasteries, palaces, and crofters’ cottages all through the Middle Ages. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

This legal recognition and guarantee of the Irish tenant's interests have led the crofter to hope that his claims, based on better grounds, may also be conceded. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

The meal was just finished, and the men were lighting their pipes, when a boat from the shore was brought alongside--a heavy, clumsy boat with great square oars pulled by two burly crofters. The Pilots of Pomona

The crofter alone is at fault; he has no shame in living in his hovel, which is scarcely fit to shelter a dog. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

But, you know, Mr. Lavender, they have not gone away merely because they cease to have the letting of the land to the crofters. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873

There is often not a house to be seen, not even a crofter's hut, and we seldom met anybody. Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden

Mr. George himself has preached his favorite doctrine to the crofters, whose views of their own rights in the land have led them to look upon the plan with more favor than the English tenants. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

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." The Pilots of Pomona

How the crofter, without money, without other materials than those at his disposal, could build anything better has not as yet been explained. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

They have still their old holdings, and so have the crofters in most cases. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873

This I have observed strikingly in the case of the three "slackest" male races I know—the Fantis of the Gold Coast, the Kashmiri, and the crofters of the West Highlands. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

Formerly the crofters used large tracts as summer pastures for their small herds of inferior stock. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

He comes of a stock of crofters, or small farmers, who for centuries had supported themselves by tilling the soil and fishing the sea. McClure's Magazine December, 1895

Crofters' Act of 1886 was supposed to do away with the crofters' wrongs. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

All loads were as yet carried on horseback; but when the farm was too small, or the crofter too poor to keep a horse, his own or his wife's back bore the load. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain

Presently he was pouring out to me all the woes of the crofter—woes that seemed so antediluvian and forgotten that I listened as one would listen to an old song. Mr. Standfast

Besides, the crofter, or one of his ancestors, has in most cases built the house and made other improvements: sometimes he has reclaimed the land itself and changed a barren waste into a garden. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

When she got there she asked the crofter if he would like his cows cured? Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories

In some cases the Commissioners appointed for the purpose have lowered the extortionate rents which crofters have been starving for years to pay. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Farm-servants, however, form only a small proportion of the peasantry, a much greater number being crofters, or tenants of small pieces of ground, from which they derive almost their whole subsistence. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished

All along the beach fishermen and crofters were hard at work hauling up spars and barrels as fast as they were tossed ashore. The Mystery of Cloomber

The feeling of the crofters in regard to increase of rent and eviction is very similar to that of the Irish tenantry. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

In the village lived a small crofter, who was afraid of nothing; he was the boldest man thereabouts; and one day he passed the miser without saluting him. Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories

There were too many fishermen here, just as at home landlords thought there were too many crofters. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

There he sold another edition of his poems for a sum that seemed fabulous to a poor crofter; whereupon he bought a farm and married his Jean Armour. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

The crofter who owned the lurcher dog lived a couple of miles off, so it was time for us to be on foot. The Mystery of Cloomber

Where crofters have been evicted, or have had their privileges curtailed or their rent raised, they and their descendants do not soon forget the grievance. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

When they approached one of the outlying farms of the Kerrs, Archie halted his band, and, accompanied by four of the stoutest and tallest of their number, went on to the crofter's house. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce

Charles had dismissed the crofters on the estate; and, as the shooting-party that day was in an opposite direction, not a soul was near to whom we could call for succour. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

His father was a poor crofter, a hard working, God fearing man of the Covenanter type, who labored unceasingly to earn a living from the soil of a rented farm. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

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 Mystery of Cloomber

The bill defines a crofter to be a tenant from year to year of a holding of which the rent is less than fifty pounds a year, and which is situated in a crofting-parish. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

In choosing a location, the home crofter should well consider his experience, and try to enter a community where he can engage in analogous pursuits. Three Acres and Liberty

His dream was a parochial Utopia where the Irish peasant, the Welsh farmer and the Scottish crofter should live in luxury, and when these were satisfied, the English operative should live in moderate comfort. The Fortunate Youth

For you see, my father worked his own way up, and my grandfather was a crofter—and I haven't got the blood of Irish kings, on the other side, behind me. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life

He was thus left a penniless orphan and was obliged to fight his way in the world as best he could as an honest, industrious, and respected crofter and fisherman. History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name

Such a measure of relief will not make all the crofters contented and prosperous. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

With such a history, such traditions, grievances, conditions, and hardships, it is not strange that the crofter should be ready to join an agitation that promised a remedy. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

The accounts of the poverty and wretchedness of the crofters now reach the public much more quickly and make a much deeper impression on all classes than they did forty years ago. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

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.... Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life

In addition to all this, the crofters demand that the government shall advance them money to enable them to build suitable houses and improve and stock their farms. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

The relief proposed will, however, be thankfully received by many of the crofters and their friends. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

The crofters and their friends are thoroughly organized, and seem likely to insist upon their claims with the persistency that is characteristic of their race. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

It was these slopes that the crofters commonly used for pasture, below which, in the straths and glens, were their holdings and dwellings. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

His father was just a land bailiff, and his grandfather a crofter.' Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life

The process of clearing off the crofters went on for many years. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Many of the crofters belong to families which have lived on the same holdings for generations. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Some of it, however, is fertile, or well suited for grazing, and greatly coveted by the crofters. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Such considerations account in part for the interest which has been excited in England by the claims of the Scottish crofters. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

The traditions of the hardships and sufferings endured by some of these evicted crofters are still kept alive in the prosperous homes of their children and grandchildren on this side of the Atlantic. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Why should the crofter claim a right to have his holding enlarged and to have the land at a lower rent than some one else may be willing to pay? Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

The crofters are, however, strongly attached to their native hills and glens, and they claim that such laws can and ought to be enacted as will enable them to live in comfort where they are. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Claims have recently been made for lands which the crofters have not occupied for two or three generations. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

The crofter system has been an extremely bad one in many respects. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Of course many of the crofters live in greater comfort, and some of the cottages are by no means unattractive. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

单词	crofter
例句	crofter I had my share of fishwives and crofter's daughters, before and after I was wed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She was a crofter’s daughter, she loved me and she wed me, she put her trust in me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The crofters had left behind a good supply of peat when they fled, so the air was hazy with smoke and the rich, earthy smell of burning turf. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter's cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child's wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was a crofter's child, orphaned when her father died of fever, on her way to . . . well, nowhere, really. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They passed a crofter's cottage, deserted and overgown, and skirted a flooded quarry where the still water had a sheen as grey as steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Command? Me? M’lord knows I’m just a crofter’s get, on the Wall for poaching?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The crofter’s village stood between two lakes, the larger dotted with small wooded islands that punched up through the ice like the frozen fists of some drowned giant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We are never told why the Glasgow lad of “Found Wanting” settles for the solicitor, who carries him off to Edinburgh, instead of writing back to the lonely crofter’s son. A Booker Prize Winner Takes On First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It provided cooking and heating fuel for crofters for generations and the ritual labour of its slow extraction and drying became a crucial part of the culture of Gaelic-speaking Hebrideans. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z We are city people pretending to be Highland crofters: your holiday is just a reality TV show, a friend laughed at us. Postcard from the future: Tiree, Scotland, my ‘dream of an island’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z One of the most compelling chapters is concerned with a path across the Isle of Lewis to shielings, or stone shelters, built by crofters near their summer grazing grounds. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review 2012-05-31T07:00:02Z No doubt that it would have been a totally different story if the narrator would have replied to Gregor, the crofter’s son, first, and they could have stumbled onward together. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Last year Halls, a marine biologist, went off to be a crofter on the Applecross peninsula in the Scottish Highlands for six months. Monty Halls' Great Hebridean Escape and Three in a Bed 2010-04-21T23:05:00Z Jamieson is a transplant from Liverpool, England, as well as a crofter on the island. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Andrew Carnegie was a crofter's lad who emigrated from Scotland to America and became a billionaire. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z This period coincided with a family move from London to the Isle of Skye, where Horsfall rambled over mountains and became a dedicated crofter, producing fruit and vegetables. Bernard Horsfall obituary 2013-01-30T18:14:17Z The small museum offers a comprehensive look at the history of South Uist, including the life of the crofter. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The number of weavers – all self-employed, some crofters working part-time on their looms in sheds beside their homes as they juggled seasonal weaving with running smallholdings and other part-time jobs – had fallen below 100. Harris tweed returns to global boutiques after islands' renaissance 2012-11-09T16:45:33Z Over the last decade crofters in the Highlands say that hundreds of their lambs have been taken by sea eagles. Dogs trained to defend sheep from sea eagles 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Cathy Dagg, a crofter and archaeologist who has lived there for 43 years, said conserving water was never far from their minds. Warning Scotland faces threat of water shortages 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z But farmers' union NFU Scotland said any proposals to reintroduce lynx were unacceptable to farmers and crofters. MSPs to discuss proposals for return of lynx to Scotland 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z She is a crofter, hairdresser and holiday accommodation owner. The 'enigmatic' peatbog seeking worldwide recognition 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z However, he prefers to portray himself as a "simple crofter" - he farms sheep in Skye, and frequently posts pictures of them online. Ian Blackford: Why has SNP Westminster chief stepped down? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z In late spring, the crofter will revert to an ancient practice of cutting and burning peat for fuel, and will also have to put up the price of the eggs he sells. Hebrides: Life on beautiful islands with the UK's worst fuel poverty 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z But the land around the rockets hangar and launch pad must remain available to crofters for agricultural use. Moray rocket test launch pad 'first in 50 years' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z In the middle of the 19th Century, the land on Knoydart was cleared of crofters and turned over to sheep and deer. Community in race to buy remotest mainland pub 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The subject was raised at Prime Minister's Questions, where Mr Blackford - himself a crofter - said a tariff-free deal with Australia "would be the final nail in the coffin for many Scottish crofters and farmers". Brexit: Boris Johnson prepared to throw farmers under bus, says SNP 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z For centuries the land has been grazed by sheep owned by local crofters, who cherish uninterrupted views of Orkney to the east and an archipelago of smaller islands sitting closer to shore. Residents of remote Scottish peninsula face up to its future as spaceport 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The letter's signatories - which includes crofters, development officers and Gaelic campaigners - said 40% of housing stock on both Tiree in the Inner Hebrides and West Harris in the Western Isles were holiday homes. Islanders fear 'clearance' over house prices 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z There was one from a boy who was younger than I was, a crofter’s son who lived in the remotest corner of the Scottish Highlands, not another soul for years and miles. “Found Wanting” 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z In 1948, a group of crofters known as the Seven Men of Knoydart launched a "land raid" in a bid to seize back the land and live independently from the landlord system. Community in race to buy remotest mainland pub 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z You would think the island crofters who knit these things would notice the problem before they got three breasts across. What a boob! Why this fair isle jumper is turning heads 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “We negotiated for ages. I think we drove HIE mad. We wanted to protect crofters’ rights.” Residents of remote Scottish peninsula face up to its future as spaceport 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z This would ensure farmers and crofters working in challenging conditions received the most support. Brexit 'an opportunity' for fairer farm funding 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z As I watched the girls, I thought about the crofter’s son, the young Highlander who wrote as though he were unworthy of an answer. “Found Wanting” 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Dr Drake said local crofters and Scottish government representatives were involved in the plan to protect the site from further damage. Meteorite hunters target Skye impact site 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Among the inhabitants are crofters with cattle and sheep, a violin maker, a Russian translator, volunteers and a part-time postal worker. The remote UK community living off-grid 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Rent from the spaceport and a promised share of its income will help Melness crofters regenerate the peat bog and invest in the community, she said. Residents of remote Scottish peninsula face up to its future as spaceport 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z MCE is set to work with HIE on the project following a ballot of crofters. Spaceport project to move to next stage 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Other crofters and residents in the area support the building of the spaceport, which could be linked to a mission control located at another, still to be confirmed, site in the Highlands. Campaign opposes planned spaceport 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The steam ploughs required huge amounts of manpower, and the crofters were becoming increasingly sceptical of the benefits the machines were bringing. Stars and gripes: Crumbling president's Scottish tour 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The dispute gathered column inches; the crofters’ chairman swore that they would go to jail rather than comply. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The technology is to be trialled in Argyll, an area where crofters and farmers have had issues with the raptors preying on lambs. Laser beams could deter sea eagles 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z “It’s a real misconception that folk have about Hebridean crofter types,” said Maggie. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z But some crofters have concerns about its impact on the environment, local roads and crofting rights. Campaign opposes planned spaceport 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z They work as crofters, the sustainable farming practice that uses the the Hebridean islands' salty peat. Mealtimes reflect UK family life 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The crofters have worked hard to escape their debts and to make the community sustainable. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Ross Lilley, SNH's Sea Eagle Project manager, said the "serious concerns" of some farmers and crofters about the impact of sea eagles on livestock had been acknowledged. Laser beams could deter sea eagles 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z In the novel, it is not the laird who strikes fear into the crofters or even his factor. Writer returns to the scene of his bloody project 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Her interests are broad – from Nomads in Tibet and crofters in Orkney, to landscape archaeology and the stories behind artefacts discovered by members of the public in Britain. The first shovelful: introducing our new archaeology and anthropology blog 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z An inventory of 25 regulations governing the lives of crofters in Lewis in 1881 brought home to me the draconian nature of the regimes under which the native population lived. How to write a Man Booker novel: six shortlisted authors share their secrets 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Having declined a voluntary cull, the crofters were threatened with a section 8 order – a forced cull. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Furthermore, this cannot be used as an excuse for any further delays in the distribution of CAP payments to farmers and crofters. EU farm payments deadline extended to October - BBC News 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z In its examination of the character of the crofters and the conditions that existed in the Highlands the book is not entirely a crime novel. Writer returns to the scene of his bloody project 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z As a crofter, he receives subsidies under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. EU Referendum: Are the Western Isles the most Eurosceptic part of Britain? - BBC News 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It has a dark history of clan warfare and later of the brutal “clearances”, when crofters were forced off the land to make way for the more profitable ventures of sheep farming and gaming estates. How to write a Man Booker novel: six shortlisted authors share their secrets 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z A compromise agreement that would be acceptable to both crofters and conservationists is still being hammered out. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It is due to be paid out to farmers and crofters before a 30 June deadline. Minister Fergus Ewing apologises for EU farm payments 'chaos' - BBC News 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Burnet says he was "shocked" when he was researching the novel to discover the terrible conditions that crofters lived under. Writer returns to the scene of his bloody project 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The Scottish government said it was focused on paying crofters and farmers before the 30 June deadline. Ministers aware of rural payments conflict of interest - BBC News 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z He was born in Inverness and grew up in a remote crofter's cottage in the Highlands. Life in pictures: Charles Kennedy - BBC News 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The crofters would be fined £40,000 for failing to manage deer numbers responsibly, and would have to pay the costs of the operation – a sum that would likely far eclipse the fine. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Mr Kennedy was born in Inverness and grew up in a remote crofter's cottage in the Highlands. The Charles Kennedy Story - BBC News 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z At that time the crofters found it hard to reach the main town, Stornoway, as they were too busy weaving tweed. Money on wheels: Banking goes mobile 2014-04-22T23:03:46Z A sea eagle management scheme, which provided support for farmers and crofters in the north west of Scotland, ended last year. Calls to control sea eagles rejected 2014-01-27T18:34:08Z Dr Elizabeth Ritchie, a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of the Highlands and Islands, said granting an inquiry was a major concession to land reformers and crofters from the government. Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z Aberdeen Angus was the first breed to have been used for bulls and they bred with the crofters' Highland and Shorthorn cross bred cows. Rent-a-stud: Government bulls-for-hire 2013-04-29T10:40:43Z But crofters are struggling to keep their animals fed and watered. Skye stays dry as the rain reigns 2012-07-20T13:17:33Z The estate on Lewis was taken over by crofters in a community buy-out five years ago. New land fund to open for bids 2012-06-29T00:38:43Z Sheep-farming on a large scale was next introduced, and the crofters were thrust into villages or barren corners of the land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z "The commission itself was welcomed by crofters, and greeted with a mix of suspicion and anger by estate management." Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z After World War II, bulls were still offered free of charge but crofters had to contribute to the cost of over-wintering the animals at Inverness. Rent-a-stud: Government bulls-for-hire 2013-04-29T10:40:43Z It has raised rents on certain estates, is an argument used by landlords, who forget to tell you that where rents have been raised they have been compelled to give back pasture-land to the crofters. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z What else there is can be only regarded as subsidiary to the main arrangement: the cotters and crofters are not tenants in the403 fields, but gardeners, labourers, craftsmen, herdsmen, and the like. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Matters, however, were not really mended, and in 1884 a royal commission reported upon the condition of the crofters of the islands and mainland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Two of its leaders toured the Highlands in an effort to help as many crofters as possible prepare their evidence. Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z This season, 97 bulls will be hired out to 84 groups, again involving about 400 crofters. Rent-a-stud: Government bulls-for-hire 2013-04-29T10:40:43Z A crofter, after working all day, often has to sit up all night to keep these beasts, which were supposed to be private property, out of his little croft. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z There are no other habitations of any kind except a few crofters' cottages across the lake. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z A history of the legislation dealing with the crofters is given in the article Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z "It helped to politicise and organise crofters, who took national and local opportunities to push demands for land reform." Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z The government said without the subsidy it would have cost crofters £3,400. Rent-a-stud: Government bulls-for-hire 2013-04-29T10:40:43Z Only by a polite figure of speech can the stone pile in which the Hebridean crofter makes his home be called a cottage. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The lake is decidedly rough this morning, but still we thought we must row across to some crofters' cottages. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z His father had once been a prosperous crofter or small farmer. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z And what of Meanish Pier where marines landed 130 years ago to quell restless crofters? Gunboat diplomacy and Crofters' War 2013-05-21T23:59:48Z I inquire of a crofter how far it is to Inverness. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Slaves at least represented so much money; but the crofter was and is less valuable to the laird than his sheep and his deer. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z 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. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z The last time I was told of it was of a crofter and his wife in North Uist. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z In 2009, a crofter uncovered an ancient anchor while digging a drain on the Isle of Skye. Aerial surveys of Viking shipyard 2011-05-05T05:58:32Z They were evicted crofters from Perthshire, and misfortune, not drink or vice, had brought them so low. Notes on Old Edinburgh 2011-05-03T02:00:17.180Z This was the one thing which the landlord, despite all his rights, could not do with his crofters. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Russia is, in fact, a vast continent of crofters, practising primitive husbandry on mere "cat's-plots" of land, and depending for the greater part of their subsistence on some auxiliary trade. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z On so small an island, inhabited by less than a score of crofters, it was scarcely possible for one to live for many weeks and not know the name and face of every soul. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Murdie says that the most seriously affected crofters complain they are losing 10 lambs a year. Are birds of prey back? 2011-03-04T10:35:24Z The crofter is among a handful who continue traditional farming methods in the 21st Century. Crofter 'last' to swim cattle over the sea to Skye 2011-02-11T12:39:09Z In the Hebrides, the landlord has always had rights; the crofter, until the passing of the Crofters' Bill of 1886, had none. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z In one respect they have the advantage over our Scotch crofters; they practise, in many cases, skilled trades. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Here Lady Cathcart, of England, has mercifully established a colony of crofters, rescued from poverty and oppression. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z Ms. Norgrove, who was from a remote crofter’s cottage in the western isles of Scotland, was kidnapped by the Taliban in the mountainous eastern province of Kunar on Sept. U.S. Rescuers May Have Killed Briton Held by Taliban 2010-10-11T17:29:00Z Campbell tells us that the Scottish crofters and shepherds were wont to put off their bonnets when they recited it. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race The crofter is a slave not only to landlord and factor, but often to the merchant. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The crofter's house may be poor, but it rings with the shouting of children at play, and love spreads its endless feast. Stand Up, Ye Dead Scottish nationality was another source of enthusiasm with him; and in this connexion he displayed real sympathy with Highland home life and the grievances of the crofters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" No fiction, said Father Grant, himself a crofter's son, could be more absurd than this. Memoirs of Life and Literature Two trips of the Mermaid—the Craft only when her young owners were by themselves—conveyed the entire party on board the Kelpie, whose crew, consisting of Rob MacLean and another crofter, were in readiness. The Adventure League He can afford to ignore the Campbells of the Outer Hebrides; but let him fight with his deadliest weapons against the crofters who to-day pay him rent. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Where many crofters had once tilled the soil, only a lone shepherd was now found, meditating on scenes of desolation. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba She was born in a remote and thinly inhabited district of the Highlands, and lost her father, a Highland crofter, while yet an infant. Leading Articles on Various Subjects "Yes you can," said the crofter, with a wink and a fearful whisper, "You can keep her off!" Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Improvements were not confined to the crofters' holdings; they extended to the castle farm and to the castle itself. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure But landlords as they exist, or crofters, must go before there can be more than negative improvement in the islands. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z For several years the crofters in this section of the Highlands had been ejected in ruthless fashion from their holdings. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba 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 On recovering consciousness, I found myself lying on a crofter's bed, with aching limbs. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland They were mere huts, but, nevertheless, they were far more comfortable in every way than many a crofter's cottage in the Scottish Highlands. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure This is the extravagance with which the crofters have been reproached. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The Highland crofter, on the other hand, rarely owns even a pig! Through Finland in Carts Even when she had stayed in the crofter's cottage she had not felt worse. Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young You may breathe freely, you and your Cabinet, for spite of your slips and blunders, the Ross-shire crofters will not turn round and rend you. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Ay, dear lady, dear lady, my father was an honest crofter there. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure If this be so, if crofters of to-day, compared to their ancestors, live in luxury, then has the time indeed come when something should be done for them. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z 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. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young I cannot see why Liberals did not liberate public-houses or Conservatives conserve crofters. What I Saw in America Winter with its long nights gives leisure to the remote glensmen and crofters. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland When there was a superfluity of fish the crofters and tenants were supplied first, and then anything that was left over was sent to friends in London and elsewhere. The Mystery of the Green Ray In three cases at least crofters were turned from their crofts because they gave evidence to the Commissioners of 1883. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z And if the children had been elsewhere than in the crofter's lonely cottage they must have been discovered, as there was every chance that they would be before long. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young A Highland laird and lady, visiting some of their crofters on the moors, are met and escorted by a delighted wife to her cot. James Watt 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. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland 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 Mystery of the Green Ray If Irishmen, protected by a Land League, refuse to pay rent, so do Scotch crofters. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z We are quite satisfied from experience, that the small crofter is quite incapable of profitably reclaiming much of our Highland Wastes without capital, and at the same time bring up a family. 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. Ten to one the proud Highland crofter and his circle reap more genuine, unalloyed satisfaction from the message than the lowland statesman and his circle could reap from his. James Watt Rasmie is a Shetland crofter who is typical of the race: shrewd, kindly, thoughtful, and gifted with a touch of quaint sarcasm. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland "The Admiral was telling me that a London brain specialist was born in one of those crofter's huts." The Long Trick J—— asked him what he thought about the crofter question. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z As they drew near Elsie could see that the tiny tenement was only some crofter's cottage, and that the walls enclosed his bit of land, not large enough to dignify with the name of farm. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Boden was a pleasant home to the Harrisons', for they were a large family, simple crofters, content in each other's society, and cherishing no earthly ambition. Viking Boys Another of his stories had reference to two old crofters, both over eighty, who began one evening to talk of the follies of the young fisher-lads when they took to dram-drinking. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland You could live at the Ritz or Waldorf a good deal cheaper than in some of these crofter's cottages. The Long Trick "I will be a real old Land Leaguer every time," he declared; and then he went on to tell us that in his part of the island the crofters held together like one man. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Then it suddenly dawned upon her that their friend of the cart was most likely one of these crofters, whose poverty and hardships she had often heard her mother and grandmother talk of. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) In these days keep for beasts was scarce, and the crofters would be cutting green whins, and pounding them between flat stones and feeding cattle and horse with them. The McBrides A Romance of Arran The audience I addressed was the most miscellaneous I have ever seen: there were boatmen and barristers, anglers and artists, curates and crofters, French and Germans. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Most of the above remarks may apply alike to the home farm of the proprietor, to the large and small farmer, and to the crofter with one cow. Cattle and Cattle-breeders They took interest in the evicted Irish, and ignored the existence of Highland crofters; they could tell us much of the fish, but nothing of the fishermen. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Elsie thought she had never seen anything so horrible as the sight that greeted her when she pushed the door wide open, and stood on the threshold of the crofter's home. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Harris Tweeds The "Harris Tweeds," made on the Island of Lewis and Harris, north of Scotland, are in the old style by the "crofters." Textiles and Clothing The crofter's son has no reading-room with costly works of reference, scientific manuals, English translations of Latin authors, etc., to go to when he is in need of help. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The crofter's cattle went down in the disease, and one of them died. Cattle and Cattle-breeders One year of famine, to keep the crofters from starving, he emptied his own purse. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z As far as she could discover, these comprised the whole accommodation of the crofter's cottage. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) But all the Scot—and perhaps the crofter—rose in Sir S. when I mourned over the little dusty feet. The Heather-Moon To avoid the breach being healed by an apology, many of the crofters sought to envenom the quarrel by refusing to believe that the elder was altogether right. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland He was watered at a watering-place on the roadside, where a crofter's cattle watered daily. Cattle and Cattle-breeders They have granted an average reduction of 42 per cent. on the rental of 150 crofter tenants in the parish of Barvas, on the west side of Lewis. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Dr. Clark and the crofters are its mode of expressing itself. Post-Prandial Philosophy His father was a crofter on a little island somewhere near Skye. The Heather-Moon A crofter came to the manse to complain about his wife's unruly and satirical tongue. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Gowan proved to be but one of our own rough crofters who had acquired so thin a veneer of civilization that it scarcely concealed the reality beneath. Up in Ardmuirland But the true story of the Highlands as they are I think we learned for ourselves when we looked, as we did at Ulva, from the laird's mansion to the crofter's hovel. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The crofters were poor farmers, for they were rather fishermen. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba Though a landlord in the Highlands he was beloved, for he was the friend of crofters, as rent was no object to him, and he did not particularly care for sport. The Disentanglers It is not a difficult task, by means of suitable selections, to bring home to an audience of crofters the salient differences between the poetry of Pope and of Spenser. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland 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. Up in Ardmuirland To solve it is to explain the crofter question without the aid of a Royal Commission. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z To the willing crofter or Orkney boatmen this was not a great task, but to the Glasgow immigrant, or the lazy waiter-on-fortune this was hard work. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba Now it was a Lowlander from Teviotdale that saw the man, and the crofters were delighted. The Disentanglers 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. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland He had seen a crofter whom he knew very well dozing during the sermon, and had "wagged his fist" at him—righteously indignant. Up in Ardmuirland People who have never heard of crofters and their troubles can tell you all about St. Columba and his miracles. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Had Robert Gordon been a Highlander instead of a Lowlander; had he been a Ross-shire crofter instead of a small laird in Wigtown, he would have been one of the foremost of the well-known ‘men.’ Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents But they set an example to many of their fellows, and the remarkable spectaclePg 33 was witnessed in more than one barrack room of these stalwart crofters engaged in family prayer. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa The disputants had all the appearance of sensible crofters—they certainly talked more intelligibly than most commentators on Kant. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland He has a straight-forward, pleasant manner with him, and is altogether superior to an ordinary crofter. Up in Ardmuirland Deer forests and large farms grow larger and larger; crofts shrink, until from the little patch of ground, long since over-worked, the crofter can no longer reap even that which he sows. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z At last they had succeeded in finding the crofter. Jerusalem Rough, bearded crofters as many of them were,—men who had never been South before,—all these hymns sounded very foreign. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa They play the part of grand patron; the people are proud to honor them; it is a condescension when they remember the name of the crofter's youngest boy. Macleod of Dare Far away, at the foot of the hills a crofter's cow lowed lazily, calling forth a summons to be taken in and relieved of its burden of milk. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner The crofter has no protection from the large tacksmen; if he makes a complaint he can get no redress. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Then the crofter bent over him and looked straight into his eyes. Jerusalem His mother and he had been up in the mountains cutting gorse and ling, which with turf from the Curragh used to be the crofter's only fuel. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill The poverty of the crofter often renders his condition deplorable. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 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. The Emperor of Portugalia "They are all landlords in the House of Commons: what will they do for us?" the crofters and cotters of Lewis asked the other day. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Against the wishes of even the humblest crofter, the King would not, because he knows he could not, enter his cottage. The Congo and Coasts of Africa He was born a peasant, the poorest of peasants, a crofter. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill The latter are in some places numerous and have taken up considerable portions of land formerly used as common, thus interfering with the rights of the crofters. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Jack Paterson was a poor crofter, who added to his scanty means by going to the deep-sea fishing, or, out of the fishing season, by burning kelp. The Pilots of Pomona In return the crofter's earnings, before he has gained them, belong to the merchant, who, moreover, is at times his employer as well as his creditor. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z A crofter's cottage in Scotland, or an Irish hovel with the pigs and children all living together, was a palace compared to that awful hole. Chateau and Country Life in France You know what these crofter fellows are—ungrateful, vindictive rascals. In the Wrong Paradise The dwellings of this class and of some of the poorer crofters are wretched in the extreme. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 However that may be, I'm not sure that the Orkney crofters would welcome such a new line of business. The Pilots of Pomona The crofter's hut is felt to be a disgrace to the Highlands. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Well, the crofters have no leases, but the tacksmen have," said the girl somewhat timidly; and then she added, "But you have not decided yet, Mr. Ingram, what you will do to-day. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 We find them in monasteries, palaces, and crofters’ cottages all through the Middle Ages. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts This legal recognition and guarantee of the Irish tenant's interests have led the crofter to hope that his claims, based on better grounds, may also be conceded. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The meal was just finished, and the men were lighting their pipes, when a boat from the shore was brought alongside--a heavy, clumsy boat with great square oars pulled by two burly crofters. The Pilots of Pomona The crofter alone is at fault; he has no shame in living in his hovel, which is scarcely fit to shelter a dog. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z But, you know, Mr. Lavender, they have not gone away merely because they cease to have the letting of the land to the crofters. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 There is often not a house to be seen, not even a crofter's hut, and we seldom met anybody. Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden Mr. George himself has preached his favorite doctrine to the crofters, whose views of their own rights in the land have led them to look upon the plan with more favor than the English tenants. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 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." The Pilots of Pomona How the crofter, without money, without other materials than those at his disposal, could build anything better has not as yet been explained. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z They have still their old holdings, and so have the crofters in most cases. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 This I have observed strikingly in the case of the three "slackest" male races I know—the Fantis of the Gold Coast, the Kashmiri, and the crofters of the West Highlands. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil Formerly the crofters used large tracts as summer pastures for their small herds of inferior stock. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 He comes of a stock of crofters, or small farmers, who for centuries had supported themselves by tilling the soil and fishing the sea. McClure's Magazine December, 1895 Crofters' Act of 1886 was supposed to do away with the crofters' wrongs. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z All loads were as yet carried on horseback; but when the farm was too small, or the crofter too poor to keep a horse, his own or his wife's back bore the load. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain Presently he was pouring out to me all the woes of the crofter—woes that seemed so antediluvian and forgotten that I listened as one would listen to an old song. Mr. Standfast Besides, the crofter, or one of his ancestors, has in most cases built the house and made other improvements: sometimes he has reclaimed the land itself and changed a barren waste into a garden. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 When she got there she asked the crofter if he would like his cows cured? Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories In some cases the Commissioners appointed for the purpose have lowered the extortionate rents which crofters have been starving for years to pay. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Farm-servants, however, form only a small proportion of the peasantry, a much greater number being crofters, or tenants of small pieces of ground, from which they derive almost their whole subsistence. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished All along the beach fishermen and crofters were hard at work hauling up spars and barrels as fast as they were tossed ashore. The Mystery of Cloomber The feeling of the crofters in regard to increase of rent and eviction is very similar to that of the Irish tenantry. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 In the village lived a small crofter, who was afraid of nothing; he was the boldest man thereabouts; and one day he passed the miser without saluting him. Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories There were too many fishermen here, just as at home landlords thought there were too many crofters. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z There he sold another edition of his poems for a sum that seemed fabulous to a poor crofter; whereupon he bought a farm and married his Jean Armour. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived The crofter who owned the lurcher dog lived a couple of miles off, so it was time for us to be on foot. The Mystery of Cloomber Where crofters have been evicted, or have had their privileges curtailed or their rent raised, they and their descendants do not soon forget the grievance. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 When they approached one of the outlying farms of the Kerrs, Archie halted his band, and, accompanied by four of the stoutest and tallest of their number, went on to the crofter's house. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce Charles had dismissed the crofters on the estate; and, as the shooting-party that day was in an opposite direction, not a soul was near to whom we could call for succour. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay His father was a poor crofter, a hard working, God fearing man of the Covenanter type, who labored unceasingly to earn a living from the soil of a rented farm. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived 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 Mystery of Cloomber The bill defines a crofter to be a tenant from year to year of a holding of which the rent is less than fifty pounds a year, and which is situated in a crofting-parish. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 In choosing a location, the home crofter should well consider his experience, and try to enter a community where he can engage in analogous pursuits. Three Acres and Liberty His dream was a parochial Utopia where the Irish peasant, the Welsh farmer and the Scottish crofter should live in luxury, and when these were satisfied, the English operative should live in moderate comfort. The Fortunate Youth For you see, my father worked his own way up, and my grandfather was a crofter—and I haven't got the blood of Irish kings, on the other side, behind me. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life He was thus left a penniless orphan and was obliged to fight his way in the world as best he could as an honest, industrious, and respected crofter and fisherman. History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name Such a measure of relief will not make all the crofters contented and prosperous. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 With such a history, such traditions, grievances, conditions, and hardships, it is not strange that the crofter should be ready to join an agitation that promised a remedy. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The accounts of the poverty and wretchedness of the crofters now reach the public much more quickly and make a much deeper impression on all classes than they did forty years ago. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 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.... Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life In addition to all this, the crofters demand that the government shall advance them money to enable them to build suitable houses and improve and stock their farms. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The relief proposed will, however, be thankfully received by many of the crofters and their friends. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The crofters and their friends are thoroughly organized, and seem likely to insist upon their claims with the persistency that is characteristic of their race. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 It was these slopes that the crofters commonly used for pasture, below which, in the straths and glens, were their holdings and dwellings. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 His father was just a land bailiff, and his grandfather a crofter.' Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life The process of clearing off the crofters went on for many years. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Many of the crofters belong to families which have lived on the same holdings for generations. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Some of it, however, is fertile, or well suited for grazing, and greatly coveted by the crofters. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Such considerations account in part for the interest which has been excited in England by the claims of the Scottish crofters. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The traditions of the hardships and sufferings endured by some of these evicted crofters are still kept alive in the prosperous homes of their children and grandchildren on this side of the Atlantic. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Why should the crofter claim a right to have his holding enlarged and to have the land at a lower rent than some one else may be willing to pay? Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The crofters are, however, strongly attached to their native hills and glens, and they claim that such laws can and ought to be enacted as will enable them to live in comfort where they are. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Claims have recently been made for lands which the crofters have not occupied for two or three generations. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The crofter system has been an extremely bad one in many respects. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Of course many of the crofters live in greater comfort, and some of the cottages are by no means unattractive. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
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