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  • Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin Carnoch, the original crofter's cottage, and Isabella's garden, which looks onto a dramatic landscape on the other side of the river.

    Scotland's Cawdor Estate 2011

  • We'd get a bit of parritch now and then from a crofter's cottage, but those folk are so poor themselves there's seldom anything to spare.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • We found accommodation for the night at a crofter's cottage.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • I saw the clump, and saw what he was pointing at, the half-ruined crofter's cottage, abandoned on the haunted hill.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Charles Kennedy, a crofter's son, comes from the Highlands and is MP for Ross, Cromarty and Skye.

    August 03, 2003 Laban 2003

  • Charles Kennedy, a crofter's son, comes from the Highlands and is MP for Ross, Cromarty and Skye.

    Disappearing Scots Laban 2003

  • Charles Kennedy, a crofter's son, comes from the Highlands and is MP for Ross, Cromarty and Skye.

    Archive 2003-08-03 Laban 2003

  • Yet, for his part, Caswallon seemed to enjoy Durk's company and little by little his easy-going, friendly nature wore away the crofter's tough shell.

    The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

  • Arcie dreamed of his old home, the snug crofter's cottage built low and thick like the men and women of the land itself, back in the cool, rainy, peaceful hills and dells of Bariga, so far away to the North now.

    Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

  • To his critics, he was little more than a second-rate actor, implausibly and cynically posturing in a variety of superficial and contradictory parts — the crofter's grandson, middleclass publisher, ducal son-in-law, vulgar showman, world leader, stag at bay, elder statesman, and poor man's Churchill.

    The Unhappy Winner Cannadine, David 1989

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