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 P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen
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 Richard Jefferies
We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
