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
All in this room was rich and costly, while the dame's own quarters were as plain as those of any other cottager.
From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison
I was met at the door by a man whose appearance was that of a simple cottager, and his manners indicated all the simplicity of rural life.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
On the morrow, the neighbourhood was thrown into a state of alarm by a cottager having found poor Toby Lackpenny in a swoon upon his shop-board.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Thomas Cooper
