guildsman
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guildsmen
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Origin of guildsman
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They had the right to share in any bargain made in the presence of a guildsman, whetheer the transaction took placein Leicester or in a distant market.
From Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly
Every guildsman had to work himself in propriâ personâ; no contractor was tolerated who himself "in ease and sloth doth live on the sweat of others, and puffeth himself up in lustful pride."
From German Culture Past and Present by Ernest Belfort Bax
The guilds made for peace and diminished competition, so that a guildsman may have been less tempted to hurry over or scamp his task.
From The Book of Art for Young People by Agnes Ethel Conway
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 Philip José Farmer
It showed a man of serious bearing, and brought to mind the princely guildsman of the Middle Ages.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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
His banquets or meetings of officers, of sharpshooters and guildsmen, are the most interesting of his works.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
The guildsmen were as Christian in England as they were anywhere; the poets were as pagan in England as they were anywhere.
From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
They must pay the town tolls, confine their dealings to guildsmen, and as a rule sell only at wholesale.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
The guildsmen do not expect a miracle to result from the disappearance of capitalist property rights.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
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