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

But the cottager thought it was better there than nowhere: he would get his food, for all the pay he was to get was his board—there was nothing said about wages or clothes.

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

Once upon a time there was a big wedding at a certain farmstead, and a certain cottager was on his way to the wedding-feast.

From The Norwegian Fairy Book by Stroebe, Clara

Ere the cottager could quit his door, up came the parson and demanded help; but the cottager honestly told the parson "he would look better at home."

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas