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
He had attained, in their eyes, a new dignity in becoming a cottager.
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
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.
Why is it that the amateur so often describes the cottager in this "poor but pious" strain?
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora
