guildsman
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guildsmen
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Gunnery was a closed corporation, and the gunner himself a guildsman.
From Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America by Manucy, Albert
The crafty guildsman had avoided the Giant's traps and there found the two geese squatting upon their bed of minerals.
From Rastignac the Devil by Farmer, Philip José
It showed a man of serious bearing, and brought to mind the princely guildsman of the Middle Ages.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
And, according to the contract drawn up between the Guild of Egg-stealers and the League of Giants, a guildsman seized within the precincts of a castle must serve the goose's owner for two years.
From Rastignac the Devil by Farmer, Philip José
The guildsman, like the earlier democrat therefore, looks about him for an environment in which this ideal of self-government can be realized.
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
In 1717, guildsmen got together for a feast in the Goose & Gridiron tavern in London and the modern Masonic fraternity was born.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether the guildsmen elect a delegate, or a representative, they do not escape the problem of the orthodox democrat.
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
They must pay the town tolls, confine their dealings to guildsmen, and as a rule sell only at wholesale.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
Every year the guildsmen held a festival, in honor of their patron, and marched through the streets with banners and the emblems of their trade.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
The movement that led up to it had arisen amongst the guildsmen as well as the churchmen and the nobles of the preceding century.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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