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
All in this room was rich and costly, while the dame's own quarters were as plain as those of any other cottager.
From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison
At first he draws a faithful picture of the cottager, the farmer, the gamekeeper, the poacher; the pictures are set in appropriate scenery; by degrees the figures vanish and the setting remains.
From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant
This would immediately give the alarm, and set the kingdom on their guard; this would give courage to the meanest tenant and cottager.
From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
