At the altar, serf and master, count or cottier, knelt side by side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference

The collapse of the potato culture by the 1840s and 1850s led to a decimation of the cottier and laborer class that had relied so heavily on female productive work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Ballywhacket, at the house of a cottier, who gave me potatoes and milk, and to whom I gave a hundred guineas after, when I came to visit Ireland in my days of greatness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference

This is the system which now exists, yet the great landholders I have consulted describe it as the result which will be brought about by giving the fee-simple of holdings to cottier tenants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

Nonetheless, the population explosion within the cottier and laboring class increased the aggregate dependence on the potato steadily and dramatically after the turn of the nineteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Audio Sample In addition, it offers some alternative motivations: the Irish rebel running from the law; the Irish Catholic fleeing from religious persecution; the Irish cottier escaping the Great Famine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Subdivision and subletting of land were increasingly undermining the viability of holdings and eventually came under prohibition altogether, leaving few options for surplus offspring in small-holder or cottier families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

This fellow, 'he added, standing up at the table, and pointing across it to Matthew -' this fellow forgets, what every cottier in Briarfield knows, that all born of our house have that arched instep under which water can flow - proof that there has not been a slave of the blood for three-hundred years. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

These houses, which contrast remarkably with the old structures not yet improved off the face of the island, accommodate half of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald's agricultural tenants, of whom there are about 100 on his part of the island, as well as eighty-eight cottier or labourer tenants, who work for the farmers or at the slate quarry, and have little patches of ground attached to their cabins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

The land's crowded now, but there's a lot of them cottier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

All the rest are Catholics, 14 of these being cottier tenants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)] Reference

His father was a cottier -- there were many here in those times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish] Reference

Because a cottier deeply in arrears to his landlord is not industrious, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Subjection of Women] Reference

He is delighted to see you, and bids you sit down on his battered bench without dreaming of any such apology as an English cottier offers to a Lady Bountiful when she calls.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America — Volume 1] Reference

The miserable Catholic cottier was, of course, in a similar case, though relatively his hardship was less, since his condition, being the lowest possible in all circumstances, could scarcely be worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Framework of Home Rule] Reference

Ulster were painfully and forcibly establishing their custom of tenant right in the teeth of the law, the inhuman system of cottier tenancy, which was to last until 1881, became more and more firmly rooted in other parts of Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Framework of Home Rule] Reference

Indeed, even the man who had an honest inclination for honest labor was very much in the condition of the Irish cottier tenant, described many years afterwards by John Stuart Mill as one who could neither benefit by his industry nor suffer by his improvidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)] Reference

I'll be in my rooms -- you know where they are, don't you -- on the cottier over -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale] Reference

The land’s crowded now, but there’s a lot of them cottier devils I mean to send to the right about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

23 The expansion of tillage led to an inevitable expansion of the potato acreage, and an expansion of the cottier class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Low-carb battles in your brain | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

22 The expansion of the economy between 1760 and 1815 saw the potato make inroads in the diet of the people and becoming a staple food all the year round for the cottier and small farm class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Low-carb battles in your brain | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

Numbers of men were in the water up to their waists or shoulders easing the cable over the rocks, while along the steep path up the cliffs was a close row of figures, men and boys, of every rank, from the well-to-do farmer down to the poorest cottier, all pulling at the cable with a will, and, as if in atonement for their first fault of enthusiasm, obeying with silent and almost childlike docility every signal made by Mr. Glass or Mr. Canning as to when they were to haul or slack away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable] Reference

On Irish cottier tenant, iv.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)] Reference

£7.0.0 (occasional laborer) - £9.0.0 (cottier).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference