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  • noun Plural form of cottager.

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Examples

  • When later she asked me to annotate and introduce her book, Visions and Beliefs,27 I began a study of ‘Spiritualism’ not only in its scientific form but as it is found among the London poor, and discovered that there was little difference except that the experience of the cottagers was the richer.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When later she asked me to annotate and introduce her book, Visions and Beliefs,27 I began a study of ‘Spiritualism’ not only in its scientific form but as it is found among the London poor, and discovered that there was little difference except that the experience of the cottagers was the richer.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When later she asked me to annotate and introduce her book, Visions and Beliefs,27 I began a study of ‘Spiritualism’ not only in its scientific form but as it is found among the London poor, and discovered that there was little difference except that the experience of the cottagers was the richer.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When later she asked me to annotate and introduce her book, Visions and Beliefs,27 I began a study of ‘Spiritualism’ not only in its scientific form but as it is found among the London poor, and discovered that there was little difference except that the experience of the cottagers was the richer.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When later she asked me to annotate and introduce her book, Visions and Beliefs,27 I began a study of ‘Spiritualism’ not only in its scientific form but as it is found among the London poor, and discovered that there was little difference except that the experience of the cottagers was the richer.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When later she asked me to annotate and introduce her book, Visions and Beliefs,27 I began a study of ‘Spiritualism’ not only in its scientific form but as it is found among the London poor, and discovered that there was little difference except that the experience of the cottagers was the richer.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • At present, therefore, the cottagers are a most heterogeneous population, presenting all sorts of baffling problems to those who have to deal with them, as the schoolmaster and the sanitary officer and others find.

    Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

  • The leaves pounded, are said to be a cure for the ringworm; and they are also made into tea by some of the cottagers, which is very useful in some ailments; and the roots boiled in honey, are said to be serviceable in dropsy.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836

  • Your cottagers are arrived; there is something very interesting in Miss Williams, and the little boy is an infant

    The History of Emily Montague 1769

  • Following the lead of the Lenox "cottagers," it became the height of Gilded Age fashion to host a party around a bowl of eggnog.

    St. Louis -- Party Central 2007

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