What is "cottager"

Usage examples of "cottager".

McBride knew the cottager, a slight acquaintance which would not prevent the old man answering any questions put to him by their pursuers.

I could not see her, as 79 Wiggy saw her, as a simple unfortunate, whom we were bound to visit in the spirit of nineteenth-century ladies visiting stricken cottagers.

Most of the cottagers take dinner and supper at the hotel, being, like ourselves, in a servantless condition.

One evening he went to a cottager who had a row of skeps, and bought one of them, just as it was after the man had smothered the bees.

The best of this company was naturally not the humble homekeeping publican or cottager, but the man or woman of the roads, Gypsy or Irish.

Without concerning himself in the least with problems of sociology, Winton had by nature an open hand and heart for cottagers, and abominated interference with their lives.

Until she could accumulate the money to have Havenhurst properly irrigated, as it should have been long ago, it could never be productive enough to attract cottagers and support itself.

One evening he went to a cottager who had a row of skeps, and bought one of them, just as it was after the man had smothered the bees.

Both soldiers maintained that we could better afford to antagonise the minority of colonists and civilised natives by inaction, than to antagonise a probable majority of tribesmen and cottagers by stamping out the dread rites.

I improved, however, sensibly in this science, but not sufficiently to follow up any kind of conversation, although I applied for my whole mind to the endeavour: for I easily perceived that, although I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become master of their language.

After two or three weeks of spoiled lettuces and nibbled cabbage plants, the cottager had lain in wait and shot him as he came through the potato patch at dawn.

But even as near home as Surrey I could introduce you to a friend of mine, a doctor who practises among the country people, who will vouch for it that the older cottagers are still unshakable in their belief that certain people are were-hares, and have power to change their shape at particular phases of the moon.

Until recent years, it was still used in some parts of the country to flavour the table beer brewed by cottagers.

It was always on the lowest and least that the weight came down in the end, just as debt found its way down from the king through his barons, through their tenants-in-chief and their sub-tenants, to the free cottagers and the bound villeins on their poor little yardlands of earth.