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
Some years since the wife of a respectable cottager in my neighbourhood died in childbed.
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
The oldest person in the village was a woman—as is often the case—reputed to be over a hundred: a tidy cottager, well tended, feeble in body, but brisk of tongue.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
