cotter

Example Sentences

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He bade ower i' yon cottar hoose, wast a bittie frae the Whin Inn.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

One of them is old Willie Duncan, a cottar of mine; and who the lame man is that is with him I know not.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

It was a cart the cottar used in the cultivation of his little holding, and his son who drove it, now nearly middle-aged, was likely to succeed to the hut and acres of Bogsheuch.

From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George

Camps they builded at Gilling, at Basing and Alresford, But wrath abode in the Saxons from cottar to overlord.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

It came upon the still air a fairy tinkle, and many a cottar and many a shepherd turned over with a comfortable feeling: "This is the Sabbath morn; I need not rise so soon to-day."

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)