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

There is a widespread story of a fairy woman who begs a cottager not to throw water out at the doorstep, as it falls down her chimney.

From Ulster Folklore by Andrews, Elizabeth

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 Besant, Walter, Sir

Ere the cottager could quit his door, up came the parson and demanded help; but the cottager honestly told the parson "he would look better at home."

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas