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
Why is it that the amateur so often describes the cottager in this "poor but pious" strain?
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Flora Klickmann
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 John Arthur Hamilton
This would immediately give the alarm, and set the kingdom on their guard; this would give courage to the meanest tenant and cottager.
From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
