cottager
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That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.
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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.
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In the autumn after the harvest the gleaning is still an important time to the cottager, though nothing like it used to be.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
Visit the poorest and humblest cottager, who knows nothing of theology, and cannot even repeat the creed.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles
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
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