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"It was lying dead by the path near the ruin of an old cottar's hut, on the path that leads to the Stainfield Fen," he stammered.
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No cottar's girl, if she did choose to go plain and scorning finery.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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No cottar's girl, if she did choose to go plain and scorning finery.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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He was in no hurry; there was something about those two, utterly separate though they might be, the one son to a lord of two manors, the other a cottar's orphan, that had suddenly shown them as close kin in his eyes.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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He was in no hurry; there was something about those two, utterly separate though they might be, the one son to a lord of two manors, the other a cottar's orphan, that had suddenly shown them as close kin in his eyes.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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Amid the vicissitudes of his career he responds to the cottar's summons, "Let us worship God."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Why are the caudal appendages of the cottar's cow and calf adorned with red thread? and wherefore are horse-shoes nailed to stable-doors, ships 'masts, and buried under thresholds?
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Then perhaps I may find a cottar's croft somewhere and settle down and marry a dairymaid.
The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915
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"Honour is honour, Captain Cameron," replied Mr. Rae firmly, "and it might have been better if you had remembered that the honour of a cottar's son is as dear to him as yours is to you."
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898
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So in the corner of the byre, among the fragrant hay and fresh-cut clover, Jess Kissock the cottar's lass prophesied out of her wayward soul, baring her intentions to herself as perhaps her sister in boudoir hushed and perfumed might not have done.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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