burgher

Example Sentences

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He recruited the famous woodcut artist Lucas Cranach, a friend and wealthy Wittenberg burgher, to improve the appearance of his works.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2017

To friends and business associates, including struggling writers, he was frequently generous, more generous than unalloyed prudence or the burgher work ethic that he embodied might lead us to expect.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016

But the rich burgher who commissioned the work suddenly decides to combine it with a farcical musical comedy.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2012

Now we learned that the outrageous salaries of footballers began with a 19th-century burgher from Preston who apparently insisted on paying his players.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2012

"So now to show bishop and burgher and priest How the Altenahr hawk can die, If they smoke the old falcon out of his nest, He must take to his wings and fly."

From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various