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

Juliet remained confounded; while the tender old cottager shed tears, saying that she had never before had so pretty a companion in her life.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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

A female cottager is preparing her family mess, when Death enters and carries off the youngest of her children.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis