Cottagers

Examples

• 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