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How to use burgher in a sentence

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Late in the 13th century the burgher class in Germany began imitating the aristocratic minnesingers.
He was also a Captain in the burgher militia, making him the first known Uys to partake in the long military tradition of the family in South Africa.
These men became free burghers or citizens who had gained their release from their contracts with the VOC by taking up plots of land and by entering into a burgher militia.
A burgher house with a built-in passage, located in the corner of the square and Rhody street is a one-of-a-kind object.
Embroidering in Bohemia was known as early as in the 12th century at the court, in cloisters, and in burgher houses.
He probably was a wandering minstrel of burgher origin, born perhaps in Swabia.
Speaking of Renaissance monuments, there is a row of burgher houses with their characteristic segmented arched gables that stands out of the town's development.
And he avoided paying taxes like a good Zurich burgher by moving to nearby Wilen in the next canton, where taxes are lower. Yet even his detractors admit that he shook up corporate Switzerland.
On the banks of the Weser River are many ruined castles, old churches, and palaces, and there are also interesting half-timbered buildings, burgher houses, and town halls throughout the state.
Although the burgher population became largely German or German-speaking, the extent of settlement by Germans was restricted except in Silesia and Pomerania.
The Rolandsfigur on the large market fountain from 1564 symbolises the most important achievement of this medieval burgher settlement, the right to hold markets.
In the course of visiting already mentioned unique medieval and Baroque sights the town offers also visit of some burgher houses with restored Renaissance arcade courtyards.
In the 14th century new wharves were situated at the gates, while the burgher houses between the gates created a kind of a defensive wall on the bank of the river.
On the European continent, there is a clear difference between noble arms and burgher arms.
Mercator never accepted the privileges and voting rights of a burgher for they came with military responsibilities which conflicted with his pacifist and neutral stance.
From a young age, burgher women were taught various household related duties by their mothers, including reading, so as to prepare them for their lives as housewives.
The League's monopolistic control over the economy of Norway put pressure on all classes, especially the peasantry, to the degree that no real burgher class existed in Norway.
Another burgher, interrupted in her reading of Goethe, might fling open her second-floor shutter and toss a panful of hot water dogward, cursing in a guttural German.
The applicants are Sri Lankan nationals of the Burgher ethnic minority group.
I went to school with Tamils, Sinhalese and members of the Burgher community.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The common burgher in his homespun breeches and kersey coat also took a part.
Well, gentlemen of the burgher guard, what are you advancing for, and what do you wish?
It was indeed the order, which the burgher guard received with a roar of triumph.
Elizabethan London was a musical city, and part-singing was cultivated beneath the rooftree of every well-to-do burgher.
Every burgher has at least two horses, and some have five, and they are all full of courage.
Prince vied with prince, and eminent burgher with burgher, in buying books.
Ministers have acted most sillily in breaking up the burgher volunteers in large towns.
A burgher who was with them to-day went to lay down his arms to-morrow.
A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse.
What was the burgher life of that first century of Munich's history?
The old knights were so proud of these names that if a burgher called them by their right ones they would correct them.
A resolution of Burgher assembly at Vereeniging authorising them to sign was put in by them before signing it.
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