cottager

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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

That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was met at the door by a man whose appearance was that of a simple cottager, and his manners indicated all the simplicity of rural life.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

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

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