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

In the bedrooms of the cottager, the artisan, and the small tradesman, the infant at its mother's side too often awoke, like Milton's nightingale, "darkling"—but that "nocturnal note" was something different from "harmonious numbers."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

He had attained, in their eyes, a new dignity in becoming a cottager.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith

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