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Meanings of burgher in English
Usage of burgher in English
1
The most sympathetic figure in the whole novel is the honest burgher.
2
He left Florence a simple burgher; he entered Venice a powerful prince.
3
If the wife of a burgher brewed his ale, he paid tenpence.
4
The surprise was not confined, however, to the observant and frugal burgher.
5
Prince vied with prince, and eminent burgher with burgher, in buying books.
6
A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse.
7
But every burgher, wherever he might be, fought with the greatest courage.
8
Feeling himself secure, that very foolish burgher ventured to be mildly insolent.
9
At Basel he was sitting with a burgher and a burgher's frau.
10
She is not for me; she is a burgher maiden-outof my reach.
11
He was ever the burgher, like the child I bore him.
12
She knows but one burgher girl in Peronne, I am told.
13
The burgher turned toward us, and as we approached I heard him say:-
14
Even the friendship of a helpless burgher girl is not to be despised.
15
Yolanda was a happy burgher girl; Mary was a wretched princess.
16
Will you be making a fine burgher's wife of me then?
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