The wife of the cottier with smiles assented to all that was said as to the neatness and comfort of the place.
The farmer puts in the crop for the manure, the cottier paying the farmer's rent--5 s.
The health of the cottier districts is remarkably good, and is rarely if ever disturbed by any morbus miseriae.
A beggar boy was given a night's lodging by a cottier at Artigarvan, three miles from Strabane.
Mr Cottier is now a Captain in the Portuguese Navy.
We were all glad to get to bed that night: Hugh and my aunt were tired with anxiety, and Mrs Cottier and I had had enough adventure to make us very thankful for rest.
I remembered what Mrs Cottier had said about the man who had lighted her fire in the barn, so I stared at him hard, trying to fix his features on my memory.
After breakfast, Mrs Cottier went to give orders to the servant, while Hugh and I slipped down the lane to see how the snow had drifted in our little orchard by the brook.
Mr Cottier cheered up when we had passed out of the sight of the lights of the shore, for he knew then that his life was to be spared.
I noticed, at breakfast (which we all ate together on the deck), that Mr Cottier was no longer aboard the lugger.
In wondering like this, the day slowly dragged to an end; and at the end of the day, just before a watery sunset, Marah and the others returned, leading Mr Cottier as their prisoner.
Mrs Cottier asked us if we had not heard her calling.
At the time, I thought that this man was the supreme head, the man who had sent Mrs Cottier her present, the man who had spoken to me that night of the snow-storm.
By this time three years Mr Cottier can talk all he's a mind.
Then I thought of poor Mrs Cottier at home, and I felt that her husband must be saved at all costs.
Mrs Cottier had been dragged in to the fire to all sorts of comforting drinks and exclamations, and old Greylegs was snug in his stable having his coat rubbed down before going to sleep under his rug.
Breakfast was ready on the table, and Mrs Cottier and Hugh were toasting some bread at the fire.
If the landlord at any time exerted his full legal rights, the cottier would not be able even to live.
Almost alone among mankind, the Irish cottier is in this condition,--that he can scarcely be either better or worse off by any act of his own.
But to induce capital to come in, the cottier population must first be peaceably got rid of: in other words, that must be already accomplished, which English capital is proposed as the means of accomplishing.
This is the system which now exists, yet the great landholders I have consulted describe it as the result which will be brought about by giving the fee-simple of holdings to cottier tenants.
At the great monastery of the West Country the tenure of the land was of all kinds, from the estates held under the obligation of so many knights' fees, to the poor cottier with an acre or two.
The cottier tenants in respect of their smaller holdings often worked for their lord one day a week, and having no plough, or oxen, their services did not include ploughing.
Then follows a list of the little cottier tenants, and their holdings and services.
Sometimes the services are to be performed with one or two labourers, showing that the cottier tenants were labourers under the holders of virgates, or indicating possibly in some cases the remains of a slave class.
The cottier tenant, in respect of his five acres (more or less), rendered similar services on an humbler scale.
The greater number of them are, however, evidently the holdings of small cottier tenants.
Two examples of the services of holders of virgates and half-virgates respectively are appended as before for comparison with others, and also examples of the services of cottier tenants.
They were at the date of the Survey even more numerous than the cottier class below them.
The competition in Ireland was for the possession of land, at an extravagant rent, out of the labour upon which the cottier could only obtain the very lowest amount of necessaries for his subsistence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
