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
We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
He simply supposed it to be some peasant girl coming up the path—for in such a light, and at such distance, who could tell the difference between a cottager and a queen?
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
Visit the poorest and humblest cottager, who knows nothing of theology, and cannot even repeat the creed.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles
