How To Use Cottager In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants.
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Butter and cheese were made on practically every farm and even the cottager killed and salted his own bacon.
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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
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It also suggested his parity with the region's affluent summer cottagers, many of them from Boston, who were his patrons.
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During the summer, it also seems a bit like a base camp, full of cottagers and hikers ready to start up the Bruce Peninsula.
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(called a gowpen) was scarce denied by the poorest cottager.
The Antiquary
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The real villains of this piece are the weekend cottagers, who bring little to our communities except inflated house prices.
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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.
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Half were cottagers, landless farm laborers, or vagrants, and one-seventh worked exclusively in textiles, mining, and other village industries.
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In pastoral Suffolk fewer than half this class were dependent on wages, presumably younger men who were not yet cottagers.
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When they were come within sight of the wood, Brian cried out that he could see the shepherd's cottage; but Austin told him that he ought not to call the cottager a shepherd, but a hunter.
History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians
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Country people were more practical, but from the 17th century, cottagers as well as landed gentry took immense pride in their plants.
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Typically they were smallholders or cottagers, village craftsmen and superior servants.
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Waterpipes have been frozen almost everywhere and in some places the public water standpipes have been frozen, resulting in considerable inconvenience to cottagers and others.
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The real villains of this piece are the weekend cottagers, who bring little to our Dales communities except inflated house prices.
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Thus he effectively blocked off access to those without vehicles, fully pleasing the established cottagers there by preventing mass transit.
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Whoever enquires, as I have frequently done, from those who have asked me an alms; what was their former course of life, will find them to have been servants in good families, broken tradesmen, labourers, cottagers, and what they call decayed house-keepers; but (to use their own cant) reduced by losses and crosses, by which nothing can be understood but idleness and vice.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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However this vaft fum, which is probably under the truth, may have been mifapplied, or wafted, yet every one, who received his proportion of it, as alms, was exempted from the tax on chargeable houfes, and muft hav«. confequently fwelled the number of cottagers.
An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ...
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Whether the passage is a direct reference to enclosure or, more probably, to disagreements among cottagers, is not certain.
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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".
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The display of flowers in all sections was good, and the vegetables in the cottagers ' class were excellent.
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The number of landless labourers and cottagers soared.
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Those who lost out were the small tenants or cottagers who might receive some compensation for the loss of a strip in a consolidated field but nothing for the loss of customary rights on the common land.
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The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.
Chapter 11
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The cottager whose pearl Colin had come down to inspect, slapped the farmer on the back, and without a trace of enviousness -- for he himself had been lucky -- joined in his delight.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
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Christ, the cops would have an easier time trying link them to 'the headless cottager' than the shooting of the computer - geek, as they were only twenty miles away from that one.
It's October, 1956.
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SNAKE, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son.
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The same kind of cordiality that you would show to the cottagers?
A Traveler from Altruria: Romance
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Three red-tops (so far) had come up with the 'exclusive' ploy of hanging around secluded highland public conveniences all night, in the hope of running into the headhunter, or at least some would-be cottager they could accuse.
It's October, 1956.
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Every cottager kept a pig, which was killed in autumn and preserved to provide food through winter.
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The area was also prime wilderness vacation country for fishers, canoeists, cottagers and others.
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Until, that is, another cottager went foraging in the archives and found an 1854 by-law referencing just such a road - a by-law Meaford and its pre-amalgamation predecessors had never registered on the title of anybody's property.
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[468] According to Walter Harte, though the yeoman in the middle of the seventeenth century ate bread of rye and barley (maslin), in 1766 even the poor cottagers looked upon it with horror and demanded best wheaten bread.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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As a result, large groups were excluded from politics, such as wage laborers, poor peasants, cottagers, land workers, and women.
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I think that boaters, cottagers, and the local people could co-exist just fine with this project.
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Besides its correct title and variations such as Gloster Spot or just Old Spot, the breed is also known as The Orchard Pig and The Cottager's Pig.
The Week's Rare Breed - Gloucester Old Spot Pig
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During the hiking craze of the 1930s, hungry cottagers would throw stones at the knapsacked townies who came to gawp.
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In pastoral Suffolk fewer than half this class were dependent on wages, presumably younger men who were not yet cottagers.
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Legislation may therefore have done relatively little to help tied cottagers or to improve low cost agricultural housing.
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But more and more people in this age are attracted by the Island's very isolation, and there has been a recent upsurge in the number of summer cottagers, a trend that is only likely to continue.
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The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager, won my reverence.
M. De Lacey
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Three Trees of Rembrandt, black in shadow against the blaze of sunlight; and thou Rosy Cottager of Sir Joshua, -- thy roses hinted by the peppery burin of Bartolozzi; ye, too, of lower grades in nature, yet not unlovely nor unrenowned, Young Bull of Paulus Potter, and Sleeping Cat of Cornelius Visscher; welcome once more to my eyes!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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[18: 17] matociquala: cottager is the word you want
Supermodel cheekbones, equity and cash, miliseconds later, piles of ash.
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Following an addition to his already numerous family, a poor cottager went out at night in search of a godfather for his newly born child.
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In pastoral Suffolk fewer than half this class were dependent on wages, presumably younger men who were not yet cottagers.
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Where only the larger farmers possessed legal title to common pastures and open fields, but cottagers customarily used them for pasture and gleaning, opposition from the land-poor majority could block enclosure.
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More and more workers are working at home, either as telecommuters employed by large firms who let them work from home, or as telecottagers who start small independent businesses operated from home.
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The cottager turned out of his own bed to let the agent sleep in it, and went to sleep with his cow.
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They set up the pageant in a village street, and not one cottager came out to greet them.
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A snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son.
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Typically they were smallholders or cottagers, village craftsmen and superior servants.
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For example, one could buy membership to the Newport Casino for $500, but keeping up appearances afterward was a pill for it was not unknown for an average “cottager” to spend $25,000-$40,000 on staff and maintenance of their residence alone.
American Resorts: Newport | Edwardian Promenade
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There are then some really sweet and amiable verses on a French lady, separated from her own children, fondling the baby of a neighbouring cottager; -- after which we have this quintessence of unmeaningness, entitled, 'Foresight.'
Early Reviews of English Poets
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A lodging, such as it was, was readily granted to them in some of the out-houses, and the usual awmous (alms) of a handful of meal (called a gowpen) was scarce denied by the poorest cottager.
The Antiquary
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The number of landless labourers and cottagers soared.
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On the misty September Saturday night in question, Tess makes her way from Chaseborough to a barn in a nearby ‘townlet’ where her fellow Trantridge cottagers are at a ‘private jig’.
