Seals' partner

Usage examples of crofts.

The crofts of the Old Village, the roofless church, the cleits dotting the slopes of Tarsaval high above me - none of it was real.

She often told herself it was folly, before she could harden her nerves sufficiently to feel the continual discussion of the Crofts and their business no evil.

With these supports, she hoped that the acquaintance between herself and the Crofts, which, with Lady Russell, still resident in Kellynch, and Mary fixed only three miles off, must be anticipated, need not involve any particular awkwardness.

The Crofts took possession with true naval alertness, and were to be visited.

She wished, however to see the Crofts, and was glad to be within when the visit was returned.

She could not, however, reach such a degree of certainty, as not to be anxious to hear whether anything had been said on the subject at the other house, where the Crofts had previously been calling.

Chapter 7 A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at Kellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his praise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by the end of another week.

The Crofts knew quite as many people in Bath as they wished for, and considered their intercourse with the Elliots as a mere matter of form, and not in the least likely to afford them any pleasure.

Northton now and I could see what it had been before the Army had come, a line of small crofts clinging to an old existence in a land as old as time.

And not another soul to be seen, only the distant outline of solitary crofts, remote on islands in the Ford.