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

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 Burney, Fanny

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 Klickmann, Flora

In the autumn after the harvest the gleaning is still an important time to the cottager, though nothing like it used to be.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard