cottager
Example Sentences
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That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Some years since the wife of a respectable cottager in my neighbourhood died in childbed.
Juliet remained confounded; while the tender old cottager shed tears, saying that she had never before had so pretty a companion in her life.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
He then related very minutely how Henry and he had climbed the rocky side of Benarde; and, from a crag midway in the precipice, had rescued the whole wealth of a Highland cottager.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
