How To Use Cottier In A Sentence
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Cottier and Company have converted into a place of princely but peaceful splendor.
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I'm reminded of the first Christian legislators, who didn't quickly abolish the tolerant Roman laws regarding practices which didn't conform to the natural law, or which were actually contrary to it, such as concubinage and slavery," Cardinal Cottier wrote.
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The famine originated with the recurrent failure of the potato crop, devastating the Irish cottier and small farmer classes.
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Mainly with a view to elicit further expression of opinion, I hinted to the last and most accomplished person who put these queries to me, that it would be absurd to give the cottier absolute control over his land, and that he should have a conditional lease from the
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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Nonetheless, the population explosion within the cottier and laboring class increased the aggregate dependence on the potato steadily and dramatically after the turn of the nineteenth century.
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Issues that aroused dissatisfaction included rents, tithes, evictions, and wages, and protest could be aimed at landlords, clergy, and even tenant farmers who sub-let to cottiers and agricultural labourers.
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Although the ebonized and painted cabinet shown in Plate IX has previously been associated with Godwin, recent research shows that it is far more likely to have emanated from the workshop of Cottier and Company of London.
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Born in Glasgow, Cottier was the pioneer of Scotland's original tradition of artistic and decorative interiors.
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Cottier inlaid it with tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl in panels depicting musical instruments and masks on the lid and nine portraits of famous composers around the sides.
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Audio Sample In addition, it offers some alternative motivations: the Irish rebel running from the law; the Irish Catholic fleeing from religious persecution; the Irish cottier escaping the Great Famine.
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The tenants, she noted, were a varied group, comprising farmers with large holdings, smallholders and at the bottom of the pile the landless cottiers and labourers, many of whom disappeared without trace in the middle of the 19th century.
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I grew up in a society where big farmers looked down on small farmers and small farmers in turn looked down on cottiers and landless men.
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At the altar, serf and master, count or cottier, knelt side by side.
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They were followed by tenant farmers to whom they leased land, and the cottiers who usually rented land on a year-by-year basis and were the most susceptible to economic downturns.
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Cottages and cabins, the dwellings of the cottiers and tenants, were interspersed among the burgages.
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Issues that aroused dissatisfaction included rents, tithes, evictions, and wages, and protest could be aimed at landlords, clergy, and even tenant farmers who sub-let to cottiers and agricultural labourers.
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This fellow, 'he added, standing up at the table, and pointing across it to Matthew -' this fellow forgets, what every cottier in Briarfield knows, that all born of our house have that arched instep under which water can flow - proof that there has not been a slave of the blood for three-hundred years. '
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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In pre-famine Ireland the average cottier consumed anything between 7 and 14 lb of potatoes per day.
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The collapse of the potato culture by the 1840s and 1850s led to a decimation of the cottier and laborer class that had relied so heavily on female productive work.
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The gap separating wealthy peasant farmers from cottiers and day labourers widened imperceptibly.
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Ballywhacket, at the house of a cottier, who gave me potatoes and milk, and to whom I gave a hundred guineas after, when I came to visit Ireland in my days of greatness.
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The cottier _pauvre diable_ appears, I apprehend, to the farmers as a labourer, and they therefore look with anything but favour upon a scheme for raising the poor peasants above the necessity of working for them, by giving the poor a real stake in the country.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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These houses, which contrast remarkably with the old structures not yet improved off the face of the island, accommodate half of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald's agricultural tenants, of whom there are about 100 on his part of the island, as well as eighty-eight cottier or labourer tenants, who work for the farmers or at the slate quarry, and have little patches of ground attached to their cabins.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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Subdivision and subletting of land were increasingly undermining the viability of holdings and eventually came under prohibition altogether, leaving few options for surplus offspring in small-holder or cottier families.
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But Mr. Mill forgets that, till you change the character of the Irish cottier, peasant-proprietorship would work no miracles.
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Besides the _geburs_ and _socmen_ there were the _cottiers_, who had small allotments of about five acres, kept no oxen, and were required to work for the thane some days in each week.
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