cottager

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Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.

From Time Magazine Archive

That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once on a time there was a cottager who had an only son, and this lad was weakly, and hadn't much health to speak of; so he couldn't go out to work in the field.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

In dry seasons, swine could pick up some feed there, and, now and then, a venturesome cottager turned out a cow, keeping watch lest it should be bogged.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

At first he draws a faithful picture of the cottager, the farmer, the gamekeeper, the poacher; the pictures are set in appropriate scenery; by degrees the figures vanish and the setting remains.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir