cottager
Example Sentences
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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
Even the village knows it to its cost; and the poor cottager, in his leaky shed at three shillings a week, is too often encompassed by its toils.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne
He then related very minutely how Henry and he had climbed the rocky side of Benarde; and, from a crag midway in the precipice, had rescued the whole wealth of a Highland cottager.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
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)
