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
He had attained, in their eyes, a new dignity in becoming a cottager.
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
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
In the bedrooms of the cottager, the artisan, and the small tradesman, the infant at its mother's side too often awoke, like Milton's nightingale, "darkling"—but that "nocturnal note" was something different from "harmonious numbers."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
