cottager
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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
We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
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.
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
