Examples of 'burghers' in a sentence

Meaning of "burghers"

Burgher is a noun that historically referred to a member of the middle class in a city, particularly in medieval times
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The burghers were largely opposed to the expedition.
Our silly aim was to astonish the burghers.
Ruined burghers also joined their ranks.
The trunks of these feasting burghers were as wide as casks.
The burghers was thus back in power.
William was supported by the party of burghers of the cities.
The burghers sent for help.
Yet her parents are little burghers.
Part of the burghers to take up their position near.
The nobility and the burghers.
Burghers share a common culture rather than a common ethnicity.
During the night the burghers fled from the battle.
The burghers are massacred or enslaved.
Membership of the nobility was also made easier for burghers to acquire.
Burghers are not physically homogeneous.

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The plebeians did not have property like ruined burghers or peasants.
Burghers and optimists cramp.
The moderate reforming party consisted mainly of burghers and princes.
The burghers naturally hated and feared the lords.
Hands of the burghers.
Houses of rich burghers sometimes received in the form of a richer decor.
Shortly thereafter he met a number of other burghers who had decided to surrender.
That all burghers so surrendering will not be deprived of their property.
Disputed by burghers.
The burghers themselves.
We are the burghers.
The burghers and their families wore simple black clothes.
The plebeians did not even have property that ruined burghers or peasants held.
Appealed to the burghers to end the political and religious divisions.
A third woman who is dressed like a farmer stands towards the left of the burghers.
The burghers demanded similar privileges to those held by the nobles szlachta.
Franciszek Mymer came from a family of burghers.
The burghers would not pay taxes and the treasury was empty.
Guilders from the good burghers of Rotterdam.
Many burghers and nobles also despised the perceived laziness and looseness of clerical life.
I simply ask the burghers of Broadhinny.
The burghers of Danzig refused to pay those taxes.
Similar action was subsequently taken by the burghers of Swellendam.
The stupid pride of the burghers serves only to debase and discourage the farmworker.
The first to leave were the Burghers.
And the good burghers are bad Indians.
The burghers of Brussels were trying to build a superstate out of abstract nouns.
John had due debts with burghers of Hamburg.
The solid burghers of Hollywood will soon find out.
Request from the merchants and burghers of Québec.
The burghers of Luleå were forced to move their town nearer the coast.
It is here that the richest burghers of Gdańsk used to live.
He was assassinated at the south gate in the city of Kassa by Saxon burghers.
This is where the richest burghers of Gdansk once lived.
The burghers then requested guardianship from the government of the Netherlands.

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