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
Once on a time there was a cottager who had an only son, and this lad was weakly, and hadn't much health to speak of; so he couldn't go out to work in the field.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
But the cottager thought it was better there than nowhere: he would get his food, for all the pay he was to get was his board—there was nothing said about wages or clothes.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
The local parliament in the parish hall may sometimes be unattended by a single cottager.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
