Significados de honest burgher en inglés

The most sympathetic figure in the whole novel is the honest burgher.

An honest burgher, who maintains himself industriously, has everywhere as much freedom as he wants.

It was the face of a good, honest burgher burdened with the cares of a prosperous trade.

My father was an honest burgher of Perth, and could use his needle as well as I can.

Thy beavers and martens, honest burgher, will be flaunting in the presence of the Emperor, at the next holidays.

The dear old boy wants Uncle's consent, and then he will settle down to be a happy and an honest burgher.

Their steady, solid ranks, and broad, honest burgher faces, seemed to me to smack of discipline and of work well done.

The honest burgher's vrow of Middelburg or Enkhuyzen claimed the right to make herself as grotesque as Queen Elizabeth in all her glory.

Pelayo, however, took no more notice of the gold than if it had been so much dross; at which the honest burgher marvelled exceedingly.

With the tone of an honest burgher he referred to his own "well-known character," which made it superfluous for him to dismiss such a suspicion.

Such artificial adornments are little befitting to the wives of honest burghers.

'Sire,' said the honest burgher, 'I could never kill a wounded enemy.'

He granted that violence and the menaces of a foreign tyranny made it difficult for honest burghers to gain a livelihood.

The honest burghers who had captured us had to return to the front, and we were to be handed over to the police.

The garden is filled with rare flowers, and the carriages and horses in the stables are the wonder and envy of the honest burghers.

The honest burghers cast fearful glances at the deep scar slashed across the visage of the stranger, and moved their chairs a little farther off.