The house of the peasant cottager was poorer still. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Staffordshire cottager who was far advanced in consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
So much for the stereotype of the insular and surly cottager. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
To every cottager in the parish he was a bounteous benefactor. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
As a surname it may be an alteration of hlothram (a) ‘cottager’. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
The cottager sat in the road shaking his head in sorrow and embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
A cottager grows old over his oaten cakes, like a citizen at a turtle feast. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference
The great man bears the load of the stipend no more than the poorest cottager. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager, won my reverence. From Wordnik.com. [M. De Lacey] Reference
And before the cottager could stay him the statesman proceeded to enter the cottage. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
There wasn't anything to spare in the budget of a cottager for toys for the kiddies. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
The Princess made answer, Ah! But when the cottager died it would be discovered there. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
= = Radish = = finds a place on the tables of the opulent and of the humblest cottager. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
The meals that their cook and general housekeeper Sarah made were good; solid cottager fare. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
But the cottager obeyed the injunction, and at the end of the twelve days had become a sound man. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
There were besides, the cottager and his wife, and three young sturdy children, brown as berries. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
What would be said in England if a Tory landlord evicted a cottager for working for a Radical farmer?. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
Miss Bruce followed the cottager, a little ashamed of her appearance; but more afraid of consequences. From Wordnik.com. [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference
No, Monsieur Populus, I am only a poor little bit of a cottager, I have never broken the laws in my life. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Flora, but the Spirit of the Waters; the central figure, the girl in green, being besprinkled by each cottager. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
If this is inconvenient, as it often is when one is a hotel guest and not a cottager, then use a good face cream. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
These young men went out into the villages, borrowed a chair of a cottager, and spoke from it at open-air meetings. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Amos have just been doing a kind act to some poor cottager and her children, whom he had learned to take an interest in?. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
When I was young, I was once imposed upon by a person quite as pleasing in manners and appearance as the young cottager. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
I mostly hear it in the spring or summer, so I figure it's got to be some cottager who's got himself some kind of flute. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle]
A nervous fever was the consequence; during which he was nursed by the daughter of a poor cottager, under whose roof he lodged. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
"Ay, master John, master John," exclaimed the old cottager, as he laid him in his own bed; "one of your wild pranks, I warrant!". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
She knew that the state of the cottager who lived that way was a mere pretext; she was quite sure he was going to Mrs. Charmond. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
A deeper blush, which at this moment dyed the cheeks of the pretty young cottager, told a tale she would wittingly have concealed. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
It is considered very lucky indeed to find that a strange swarm of bees has arrived in the garden, or tree, belonging to a cottager. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
The culture from seed is of the simplest character, no appliances whatever beyond those at the command of the cottager being needed. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
No busy note of this world interrupted the course of her mind; the merry dance had ceased, and every cottager had retired to his home. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference
She knew that she would light upon a furze-cutter or cottager of some sort from time to time, from whom she might correct her bearing. From Wordnik.com. [Wessex Tales] Reference
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