A hundred and five guilders of my precious money have I been made to pay for your foolery, besides losing my Tokay wine, my field of wheat, and all my fine young turkeys!
They elaborated upon the argument that they had spent a "ton of gold" (amounting to one hundred thousand guilders or forty thousand dollars) upon their colonies.
It was enacted in New Netherlands in 1659, for instance, that immigrants coming with cargoes had to pay a thousand guilders for the burgher right.
To have about you a fellow hired at ten guilders a month, who calls you by your Christian name, is very deleterious to the character.
My father instructed me to supply you with money if you needed it, but never with more than ten guilders at a time.
He tears the letter open; it encloses nothing save a package of bank-notes,--eighteen hundredguilders in Austrian currency.
Word came to Mynheer Muller from the governor direct that a price of many guilders was put on my head.
Have you found a place whereguilders grow on trees?
The magistrate, in order to repress the evil in the beginning, after he had kept him in confinement for several days, adjudged that he should either pay one hundred guilders or work at the wheelbarrow two years with the negroes.
It would have been proper, that they should have been supported by their own people, but they have been at our charge, so that we have had to spend several hundredguilders for their support.
The beer excise of three guilders per tun, was imposed by Kieft in 1644, and is paid by the tapster alone, and not the burgher.
The tapsters pay three guilders for each tun of beer and one stiver for each can of wine,(1) which they get back again from their daily visitors and the travellers from New England, Virginia and elsewhere.
In addition to the sum expended, there was five hundred and fifty-four guilders in the hands of the treasurer, which was to be used for some similar object when presented to them.
Four hundred and fifty-four guilders more than the sum required," added Paul, delighted by the intelligence.
The principal and the students seemed to make their financial calculations in English money, on the basis of twelve guilders to the pound.
Mr. Fluxion put down twenty-four guilders, and the students twelve guilders each; for no one was willing to be behind the others.
It was certain that eleven hundred guilders would cover the whole expense of putting the galiot in perfect repair, and the balance of this sum was handed to the skipper.
The plays were rehearsed and performed in three weeks' time; and the committee handed the resident a sum of nearly fifteen hundred guilders for Mother Staats.
He did not see the two bottles at once, but he saw the drop of light on the black velvet and he understood that the visit would cost him more than fifty guildersthis time, unless he was very firm: "Mevrouwtje!
His household cost him every month a few odd hundred guilders above his salary; and he was living beyond his income, was in debt.
I doubt if she has anything left but her pension: two hundred and forty guilders a month, I believe.
You know since Pentecost the sum is due, And since I have not much importun'd you; Nor now I had not, but that I am bound To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage.
He sent commissioners through the provinces to raise the respective contributions agreed upon, besides an extraordinary quota of four hundred thousand guilders monthly.
He also negotiated a loan of a hundred and twenty thousand guilders from the citizens of Antwerp.
Now, don't be angry at what I am going to say--you have thrown away many a hundredguilders to beggars and other worthless people; and what profit has it brought you?
Having reached the highest point in the Pine-grove, Charcoal-Peter Munk stood before a pine of huge circumference, one for which any Dutch ship-builder would have given many hundred guilders on the spot.
Fat Ezekiel apparently, had not noticed the demon, for he requested Gambling-Peter to lend him ten guilders so that he could go on playing.
If he has kept his word as to the hundred thousand guilders as he has with regard to my heart, I shall be quite content," he cried, beginning to examine everything in the coach.
He might gamble away twentyguilders in an evening, yet his pockets rattled and jingled just the same, as though they still contained hundreds of thalers.
No matter whether he lost twenty or thirty guilders on a single throw, there they were again in his pocket as soon as Ezekiel had gathered them from the table.
I immediately offered twelve guilders (a pound) for a specimen; but all in vain, and I am to this day uncertain whether such a bird exists.
In the meantime I unloaded my baggage on the beach and made some tea, and afterwards discovered a small but which the owner was willing to vacate if I would pay him five guilders for a month's rent.
The boat I had hired from a Chinaman named Lau Keng Tong, for five guilders a month.
It actually proposed to pay a lump sum of a hundred guilders annually, and so be free from all custom duties of whatever kind.
It made guildersafter the pattern of the Florentine ducats.
You made a bargain with the Master before starting, giving him so many guilders for a journey, say between Ghent and Bruges, the charge amounting generally to about a Guinea a day for each Gentleman passenger, and half the sum for a servant.
Not satisfied with this, the corsairs insisted on a further sum of ten thousand guilders in cash, as ransom for the private estates, on the ground that they had been paid only for the fort and properties of the Government.
The different chiefs were not united in any way, and it followed, therefore, that, after thousands of guilders had been spent on one, the others made incursions to get a share of the good things for themselves.
Coffee may also be planted by contract; though, in Java, where men can be got for three guilders per month and their rice, worth two guilders more, the plan is not generally adopted.
He was a noble little animal, of a mouse colour; and was originally purchased from a native dealer for twenty-eight guilders (about 2l.
Ten guilders per month, allowed as pay to each man, would secure the choice of the population; and no force would equal them for the maintenance of peace in such a country.
An able-bodied labourer costs, in Singapore, four dollars per month, while the same man can be had in the mountains of Java for three guilders in money, and the value of two in rice.
The loose silver, some guilders and dollars, I have always kept in that unlocked left drawer.
And just now, when he had spent seven hundred and thirty-four guilders in building a concert-hall in his compound.
The notice was printed in the cynical capitals of blackmail; and she at once understood; she understood what that subscription of two hundred guilders a year to a scurrilous rag meant!
But she also understood that, even if she sent the fifty guilders or the two hundred guilders that moment, it would be no safeguard against further defamation or extortion; and she did not know what to do.
And that's what Van Naghel and Bertha spend a couple of thousand guilders on: giving them some dinner and a dance and letting them gaze at my Luxury, with Floortje dancing on top of Marianne.
It is farther from Granny and two hundred guilders dearer; so put the house in the Emmastraat out of your mind.
It is difficult to reconcile these equivalents with the rate of 3 guilders to the rix-dollar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guilders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
