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Fire and sword were therefore carried through the country of the Camerons; the cattle were driven away; even the cotter's hut escaped not: the homes of the poor were laid in ashes: their sheep and pigs slaughtered: and the wretched inmates of the huts, flying to the mountains, were found there, some expiring, some actually dead of hunger.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

"Oh dear me, madam! do not you know?" exclaimed the old woman; and then came the whole story of the cotter's daughter on the hill, and how she and her father and old Mother Danby -- whom people believed to be a witch -- had persuaded or threatened Sir John Hastings into making rich people of them.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

Its charm has been ever supposed there as an unfailing protection against evil influences, as is attested by the spray in the workman's cap, and in the bosom of the cotter's wife.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

It is the direct gift of that God who is no respecter of persons, and who sheds his glory on the cotter's child as freely as on those of monarchs and of millionaires.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

We saw the room – the low-ceilinged, humble little room where once a cotter's son was 'royal born by right divine,' and we explored the ruins of the old Alloway Kirk made classic forever by Tam O'Shanter's adventures.

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917

Yes, here is the American cotter's home; and so many boys have come out of a place like this and gone to the wars or into public life.

Children of the Market Place Edgar Lee Masters 1909

Burns here gives expression to his social philosophy in a contrast between rich and poor, and adds a quaint humor to his criticism by placing it in the mouths of the laird's Newfoundland and the cotter's collie.

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

I walk on along my great arc and come down by the first cotter's house.

Look Back on Happiness Knut Hamsun 1905

An hour or so later he stopped at a cotter's, some miles from home.

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

Now the King was doubtless ill-advised, and his councillors did not take the kindly or the wise way with the people at this time; for a host of wild Highlanders had been turned into the land, who plundered in cotter's hut and laird's hall without much distinction between those that stood for the Covenants and those that held for the

The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900