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
The oldest person in the village was a woman—as is often the case—reputed to be over a hundred: a tidy cottager, well tended, feeble in body, but brisk of tongue.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
In the autumn after the harvest the gleaning is still an important time to the cottager, though nothing like it used to be.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
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)
