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

It is, however, not only the common people, the cottager and the village publican who desire to possess such ornaments.

From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

We seldom met anyone afoot in those days except, now and then, the cottager who lived in a thatched hut down in one of the multitude of hollows.

From My Little Sister by Robins, Elizabeth

Once on a time there was a cottager who had an only son, and this lad was weakly, and hadn't much health to speak of; so he couldn't go out to work in the field.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.