Sentence examples for cottier from inspiring English sources

Victorian elites castigated in equal measure Indian ryot farmers, Irish cottier tenants and African sharecroppers as primitive, idle, mendacious and improvident.

He was born in Londonderry County in 1834, part of the cottier class that survived on small patches of rented land and twelve pounds of potatoes a day.

But Cottier had only just begun.

"This [slow formation of winter ice] leads to thinner ice that can break up more easily," said Cottier.

Father Cottier said that it would be "absurd" to take responsibility for all past mistakes, and that apologies worked best in an ecumenical sphere, where divided branches of Christianity could seek mutual pardon and reconciliation.

Father Cottier said that the document sought to put the pope's call for a "purification" of the church within its proper theological and historical context.

Once, while we sat at our desks awaiting the arrival of a long-suffering English teacher, Cotty balanced a large cardboard box on the frame of the classroom door.

Gomez plays Faith, and Hudgens her friend Candy; together with Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine, the director's wife), they form a frustrated foursome, who have finished the semester but cannot afford to go to Tampa for spring break.

The longer "Spring Breakers" goes on, the more its creator comes to resemble its characters in his swooning surrender to temptation, and by the time Alien noodles around on a grand piano, in a peachy twilight, on the waterfront, and croons Britney Spears's "Everytime," while Cotty, Brit, and Candy writhe along, cradling assault weapons and a shotgun, Korine has mislaid any claim to moral distance.

He soon got a job as a "tracker" at a production company called Alphaville, where his boss was Cotty Chubb.

Lee's next meeting at L'Ermitage that afternoon was with Caldecot (Cotty) Chubb, a middle-aged, gum-chewing man who recently helped produce the Kurt Russell drama "Dark Blue".