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
We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
In the bedrooms of the cottager, the artisan, and the small tradesman, the infant at its mother's side too often awoke, like Milton's nightingale, "darkling"—but that "nocturnal note" was something different from "harmonious numbers."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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 Thomas Cooper
