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

Ere the cottager could quit his door, up came the parson and demanded help; but the cottager honestly told the parson "he would look better at home."

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas

The local parliament in the parish hall may sometimes be unattended by a single cottager.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

But the cottager thought it was better there than nowhere: he would get his food, for all the pay he was to get was his board—there was nothing said about wages or clothes.

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