cottager
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 White, Walter
A poor cottager in one of our country villages, some years ago, out of curiosity, came to one of our mission festivals.
From Pine Needles by Warner, Susan
