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
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
On the morrow, the neighbourhood was thrown into a state of alarm by a cottager having found poor Toby Lackpenny in a swoon upon his shop-board.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas
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
