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

He then related very minutely how Henry and he had climbed the rocky side of Benarde; and, from a crag midway in the precipice, had rescued the whole wealth of a Highland cottager.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

Once upon a time there was a big wedding at a certain farmstead, and a certain cottager was on his way to the wedding-feast.

From The Norwegian Fairy Book by Stroebe, Clara

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.