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

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

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

We have seen a pit in Staffordshire, which hardly gave coal enough to maintain a cottager and his family, for he worked the pit with imperfect machinery—with a half-starved ass applied to a windlass.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles