Burghers

Mr. Kershaw, who advised the curators of the new Hitler exhibition, addressed hundreds of Berlin burghers at the museum Thursday night in a speech on Hitler 's popularity. ❋ Marcus Walker (2010)

The former was the child of plain French burghers, twenty-three years old, a daring, swaggering youth, indifferent to danger, already an intimate of ❋ William Milligan Sloane (1889)

General Olivier of the Rouxville Commando, called his burghers together and told them plainly what he thought. ❋ P. H. Kritzinger (N/A)

In the first place, he must satisfy himself that all the burghers in his district are in possession of rifles and ammunition; and in the second place, he must call the burghers together once a year for inspection. ❋ Arthur M. Mann (N/A)

I think there will be much blood spilt before they surrender, as Mr. Englishman fights hard, and our burghers are a bit frightened. ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)

The burghers are a homely folk, and they like an occasional cup of coffee with the anxious man who tries to rule them. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

I thought it my duty to go the round of all the commandos, call the burghers together, tell them I had been appointed, ask them their opinion on the appointment, and give them some particulars of the new organisation. ❋ P. [Illustrator] Van Breda (1892)

I now had to perform one of the most unpleasant duties I have ever known: that of calling the burghers together and telling them that those who had no horses were to go by train to Komati Poort, there to join General Jan Coetser. ❋ P. [Illustrator] Van Breda (1892)

The spirit that now ruled the burghers was a spirit that was driving them over to the enemy. ❋ Christiaan Rudolf De Wet (1888)

All civil communities had a council and an assembly of burghers, that is, a small and a great council; the burghers consisted of the guilds or ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)

The nondescript class, composed of those who are inscribed as permanent inhabitants of the towns, but who do not belong to any guild or tsekh, constitutes what is called the burghers in the narrower sense of the term. ❋ Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1880)

Van Artevelde called the burghers together, and told them what the situation was. ❋ George Cary Eggleston (1875)

The old bell Roland, that was used to call the burghers together on the approach of an enemy, hung in this tower. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

By these charters they acquired the right to govern themselves; that is, the burghers elected their own mayor and their councilor aldermen, and this body governing the community was called the commune. ❋ Elizabeth Latimer (1863)

William, who had been the richest citizen in the Netherlands, clad in an old serge cloak, and surrounded by plain Dutch burghers. ❋ George William Curtis (1858)

Only "burghers", i.e. gentry and free farmers, were real citizens with all rights of a free man. ❋ Wolfram Eberhard (1949)

And in particular he pointed out that the fact of the final amendment being thus readily adopted by the Volksraad disposed of the contention, upon which President Krüger had laid so much stress at Bloemfontein, that his "burghers" would not permit him to make the concessions which the British Government required. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Free State, "he says," it is now absolutely certain that the struggle on the part of the burghers is a hopeless and useless one. " ❋ Unknown (1898)

Yinz goin' aht n'at. Nah, were watchin' the [Sillers] after we stop at Giant [Igle] just like any [burgher] would. ❋ Russdog Maximus (2007)

James had a family and a [steady] job. He owned his own home and had money to spend. He was neither [wealthy] or poor. He was [middle class], otherwise known as a burgher. ❋ Piarr2 (2005)

[Look it's] [zoie burgher] she's on [the news]. ❋ Jay Ben Day (2017)

[looks like] [we got] [another] matt burgher ❋ Awesomeness141 (2011)