How To Use cottager In A Sentence
- Many small farms were indeed still let to some cottagers at rack-rent, which cottages had the right of commonage, guaranteed to them in their leases; but afterwards the commons were enclosed, and no recompense was made to the tenants by the landlords. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
- These changes provoked the anger of William Cobbett, who wished to return to a golden age when England was still a land of prosperous yeomen farmers and contented cottagers.
- Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants.
- Butter and cheese were made on practically every farm and even the cottager killed and salted his own bacon.
- Pausing to fellate a fellow cottager, he then added, "I'm sure you'll agree that this is sterling work by the Prime Minister and should be recognised as such". Sharp Increase in GDP Reported
- It also suggested his parity with the region's affluent summer cottagers, many of them from Boston, who were his patrons.
- During the summer, it also seems a bit like a base camp, full of cottagers and hikers ready to start up the Bruce Peninsula.
- (called a gowpen) was scarce denied by the poorest cottager. The Antiquary
- The real villains of this piece are the weekend cottagers, who bring little to our communities except inflated house prices.
- The cottagers counter that they pay property taxes, too, and they're resentful that their political impact is mitigated by the fact that they're not allowed to vote in elections held in the communities where their cottages are.
