What is "culter"

Usage examples of "culter".

When her husband died, violently, in the field the elder boy Richard became third Baron Culter, and Francis hisbrother received the heir's title of Master of Culter as well as taking name from his own lands of Lymond.

Any Culter: old Lady Culter, young Lady Culter, or his middle-aged lordship .

Familiar with every inch of Boghall, she stood chatting to Sir Wat after his necessary talk with Fleming, and it was she who told him Lord Culter was upstairs.

As he spoke, three riders passed through the gate and drew rein: two were the Master of Culter and the man Dandy-puff, while the third was a stranger, a young man, tied to his horse and wild about it.

Long enough, for example, to let Lord Culter and Tom Erskine with their men, however few, ride back to the defence of Stirling, their two Queens, their womenfolk.

Lord Culter, watching the assault, lips compressed, saw the decision he did not want to make striding toward him.

Lord Culter, weaponless and fine-drawn, stepped forward and addressed them.

They spread a rumour they meant to march north, and got a shock when Culter assumed the opposite and charged in.

Although I don't mind saying," he added frankly, "that Culter took a chance I wouldn't have touched with a billhook.

He had left them at Bogle House, which the Culter family and the Flemings shared, and had found his town like one with the plague at the door.

For a week, the baby had been in hiding with her mother, and Mariotta and Lady Culter, now taking the place of the new-widowed Jenny Fleming, had gone to be at their side.

Fighting had left Wat Scott of Buccleuch unaltered: bonnet crammed with Buccleuch bees, he looked as he had done when, standing with Lord Culter on the Boghall battlements, he had watched smoke rise from the castle where his wife Janet lay with a knife in her shoulder.

A distant neighbour, a near-contemporary, a gentle and distinguished landowner and courtier, Andrew Hunter was well known to the Culters, and Mariotta had learned to like him, and to enjoy his kindness, his willing attentions, and an articulate turn of speech which made her now and then sick for home.

Mishap to a Queening PawnON SUNDAY, the day after the affair at Lake of Menteith, Lord Culter was also taking aquatic exercise of a kind which all but turned his epithalamics into elegies.

In spite of two years in the Culter household acquiring, supposedly, polish and panache, she still had a loud and energetic voice, poor skin and a passion for romans idylliques.