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

We seldom met anyone afoot in those days except, now and then, the cottager who lived in a thatched hut down in one of the multitude of hollows.

From My Little Sister by Robins, Elizabeth

Once upon a time there was a big wedding at a certain farmstead, and a certain cottager was on his way to the wedding-feast.

From The Norwegian Fairy Book by Stroebe, Clara

This would immediately give the alarm, and set the kingdom on their guard; this would give courage to the meanest tenant and cottager.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)