cottager

Example Sentences

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“It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls—cottagers’ children—at the best, farmers’ daughters.

From Literature

The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathised in their joys.

From Literature

Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams put it well: “The cottager may beget a wise son; the noble, a fool. The one is capable of great improvement; the other, not.”

From Washington Post

The leadership simply doesn’t know how it will exist without the cottagers tithing them millions.

From Washington Post

It would now have been evident to both men that the object that they were rapidly closing in on was not some cottager’s wayward laundry but rather a human body—but whose body?

From Salon