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
A female cottager is preparing her family mess, when Death enters and carries off the youngest of her children.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce
It is, however, not only the common people, the cottager and the village publican who desire to possess such ornaments.
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
Even the village knows it to its cost; and the poor cottager, in his leaky shed at three shillings a week, is too often encompassed by its toils.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
