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
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
I was met at the door by a man whose appearance was that of a simple cottager, and his manners indicated all the simplicity of rural life.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
I knew him well, he was a cottager whose two sons had had to go to the war.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
