Cottager
[kɔtidʒә(r)]
Definition
(n.) One who lives in a cottage.
(n.) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.
Checker: Otis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cotter.
Edited by Joanne
Examples
- Cottager's wife! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- A nervous fever was the consequence; during which he was nursed by the daughter of a poor cottager, under whose roof he lodged. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Tom, as Cottager, was in despair. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- You must be Cottager's wife. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- You shall be Cottager's wife. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager, won my reverence; while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Cottager's wife is a very pretty part, I assure you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It could make no difference in the play, and as for Cottager himself, when he has got his wife's speeches, _I_ would undertake him with all my heart. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But when the cottager died it would be discovered there. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She had better do the old countrywoman: the Cottager's wife; you had, indeed, Julia. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- You have only two scenes, and as I shall be Cottager, I'll put you in and push you about, and you will do it very well, I'll answer for it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The cottagers arose the next morning before the sun. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- That hour past, the sun mounted high in the heavens, but the cottagers did not appear. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Every conversation of the cottagers now opened new wonders to me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The girl was young and of gentle demeanour, unlike what I have since found cottagers and farm-house servants to be. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls--cottagers' children--at the best, farmers' daughters. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Am I not to show favour to any person I may choose without asking permission of a parcel of cottagers? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I could mention innumerable instances, which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I learned also the names of the cottagers themselves. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It seems to me we know nothing of our neighbors, unless they are cottagers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The farmers and cottagers, on the contrary, struck with the fear of solitude, and madly desirous of medical assistance, flocked into the towns. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Some of my own cottagers are in wretched circumstances. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Rufus