My father used to tell me a story about the spendthrift son of an old baron who lived in my town, by the name of De Ruyter, and who spent in just two years every guilder his father left him.
When the coffee was passed the head waiter brought to him an assortment of cigars on a tray, some one guilder each, some five cents.
The history of Christ Healing the Sick, known as The Hundred Guilder Print, now the most prized of all the etchings, shows that he did not attach much value, either artistic or monetary, to this plate.
At the Holford sale, as has already been noted, £1750 was given for the Hundred Guilder Print.
The first portfolio that was brought to him contained the Christ Healing the Sick, known as The Hundred Guilder Print, in several states.
The bank of Amsterdam professes to lend out no part of what is deposited with it, but for every guilder for which it gives credit in its books, to keep in its repositories the value of a guilder either in money or bullion.
At Amsterdam, however, no point of faith is better established than that, for every guilder circulated as bank money, there is a correspondent guilder in gold or silver to be found in the treasures of the bank.
The bank of Amsterdam professes to lend out no part of what is deposited with it, but, for every guilder for which it gives credit in its books, to keep in its repositories the value of a guilder either in money or bullion.
The outer and larger coins are three guilder pieces, the smaller ones one guilder.
Doesn't she know that he has sacrificed every guilder that he might have had from you?
Is it not charity to offer him half a guilder for that lace?
Sidney Van Guilderstood in the drawing-room, with his coat off, directing his workmen.
Van Guilder seemed to consider this possibility with some seriousness.
We could not possibly reach him in time to prevent Mr. Van Guilderfrom carrying out his intentions.
To come at once to the point," said Gordon Montcure, "Mr. Van Guilder is just a little offcolor.
The attorney for Wood-las offered two thousand dollars' advance; then three, then four, but Sidney Van Guilderwas immovable.
Sidney Van Guilder laughed at their proposition to repurchase.
Full oft, I suspect, Ye, counting your fingers, call thumbkin their first, And reckon a groat every guilder disbursed.
IV An hour they sat in council; At length the Mayor broke silence: "For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell, I wish I were a mile hence!
Every week we had a guilder left over, sometimes more; for the father worked extra hours, and could get high pay for his labor.
You may be able to get another ten-guilder piece," said Carl, "but the rest of us will not find it so easy.
He had seen Mevrouw van Stoop's sweet-cheeses in market, and he knew that the lofty dame earned many a bright, silver guilder in selling them.
By Saint Bavon I swear to give you each a ten-guilder piece if you will but free me!
The grain by this means fell still lower in price, and while we were there the people could not obtain more than four or five guilders in zeewan for a schepel of fine wheat, that is, sixteen stivers or one guilder of Holland money.
We promised him a guilder to take us to the sackemaker.
Footnote 59: A guilder or florin was equivalent to about 40 cents.
On the following Monday, Esther Van Guilder returned her friend’s call, in response to an urgent invitation, despatched by mail.
Every week we had a guilder left over, sometimes more; for the father worked extra hours and could get high pay for his labor.
YOU may be able to get another ten-guilder piece," said Carl, "but the rest of us will not find it so easy.
He had seen Mevrouw van Stoop's sweet cheeses in market, and he knew that the lofty dame earned many a bright silverguilder in selling them.
There is nothing he likes so well as the feel of a guilder between his fingers.
And she drew her husband's hand towards her and suffered him to kiss her on the forehead, because he had been permitted to buy her a three-hundred-guilder diamond.
Pay your score, if you have one, and if you have not, e'en spend your guilder in treating of your companions, and come to me at nine of the clock this evening at the Inn of the Three Archduchesses.
On the following Monday, Esther Van Guilder returned her friend's call, in response to an urgent invitation, despatched by mail.
In these respects, the Hundred Guilder print is a striking example.
This beautiful print is known under the appellation of "The Hundred Guilder Print.
Even the Hundred Guilder Print (236) holds its unrivalled place in the art of etching rather for the genius that overcame supreme difficulties than for the supreme fitness of the style in relation to the medium.
And one evening Guilder came alone to his studio and found him lying on the lounge, his lank, muscular hands, still clay-stained, hanging inert to the floor above an evening paper fallen there.
He was a man so perfectly attired and so scrupulously fastidious about his person that Guilder often speculated as to just why Quair always seemed to him a trifle soiled.
But there's another thing--" Guilder looked curiously at Drene.
He had been inclined to complain one day in the studio, when he and Guilder visited Drene professionally; and Guilder looked at his dapper confrere in surprise and slight disgust; and Drene, at first bored, grew irritable.
Even for you," repeated Guilder in his moderate and always modulated voice.
Guilder intervened pleasantly: "I don't think Drene is particularly interested in philosophy.
Quair said to Guilderafter they had departed: "Fancy old Drene playing about with that girl on a strictly pious basis!
Guilder patiently awaited him in the car and each time Quair emerged from the cafe bar a little more flushed and a trifle jauntier than when he had entered.
If I hadn't the drinking of the entire firm to do, who'd ever talk about Guilder and Quair, architects?
Quair and Guilder were in the studio that day on business; Drene continued to modify his composition in accordance with Guilder's suggestions; Quair, always curious concerning Drene, was becoming slyly impudent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guilder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cent; dollar; franc; pie; pound; ruble; shilling; sou
