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If a cottager's baby tumbled into a fire, it tumbled right back out again, with just enough scorching on his smock to make his mama take better heed.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

This good king -- whose intimacy with his people we delight to associate with the homely incident of the burning of a cottager's cakes -- kept the

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

The trowel and basket you can leave at a cottager's house, and the bottles are indispensable to every angler-naturalist.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

Cactus (Cereus flagelliformis), and it is no unusual thing to see a large window of a cottager's dwelling thickly draped on the inside with the long, tail-like growths and handsome rose-coloured flowers of this plant.

Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation W. Watson

As she stood on the doorstep exchanging a few parting words with the cottager's wife, she was startled by the sound of furious galloping not far off, and shrank back into the cottage, naturally dreading the sight of an excited horse so soon after her perilous upset in her brother's carriage.

Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson

Now, just as God plants the flowers in a certain place, some up high on the hills, others down low in the valley; some in the Queen's greenhouse, others in the cottager's garden, so He puts you children in your right place.

The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

We should like to add, that notwithstanding the high qualities of the Hyacinth, it is quite a cottager's flower.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

All the dogs in the neighbourhood rejoiced in him, and every cottager's wife blessed him when he flung his bright smiles around him as he passed along.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

A cottager's wife might have died as Princess Alice died, through breathing in the poison of diphtheria as she hung, a constant, loving nurse, over the pillows of her suffering husband and children.

Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling

"The games are resumed when the posset is eaten, or possibly all gather round the fire, and sing or tell stories, whiling away the hours till the stroke of twelve, when all go outside the house to listen, whilst the singers, who have gathered at some point in the village, sing 'Christians, awake!' or 'Hark! the Herald Angels Sing'; and so comes to an end the cottager's one hearth-stone holiday of the whole year."

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton