He was the last of the old Brussels guildsmen to give his life for liberty.
The tocsin in the old belfry instantly sounded the alarm, and angry guildsmen and burghers came pouring down the narrow streets in thousands.
Then the Flemish guildsmenwere for a moment hard pressed, but they quickly rallied and the proud French nobles were beaten down beneath their cruel pikes and clubs by hundreds.
The tocsin therefore was sounded and the hosts of guildsmen and burghers marched out to attack the enemy.
The first of these was in 1383 when the guildsmen of Ypres successfully beat off a powerful army from Ghent, aided by a large contingent from England.
The spinners and weavers were idle, the markets deserted, actual starvation existed, and many of the guildsmen were forced to wander off into the countryside to beg for food.
This was the renowned bell which the burghers of Ghent had cast and hung high on their Belfry as an emblem of the city's freedom from tyranny and a tocsin to summon the sturdy guildsmen to its defence when danger threatened.
The guildsmen had a hearty and honest pride in good and skilful workmanship, and the officers of the guilds supervised the quality of the goods turned out and imposed penalties for poor workmanship or the use of inferior materials.
The Count fought stubbornly on, nor did the war with France end immediately, but in almost every instance the guildsmen were able to maintain the results of their great victory and firmly establish the foundation of their power.
At last the Flemings began to give way, and the battle became a slaughter, more than twenty thousand of the guildsmen being slain on the field, while all prisoners were hanged.
The opposition of the non-privileged citizens, usually led by the wealthier guildsmen not belonging to the aristocratic class, operated through the guilds and through the open assembly of the citizens.
Impoverished guildsmen there were, who through their privileges were still connected with the existing civic order on the one side, and serving-men out of place who had not as yet become proletarians on the other.
In the towns the poorer citizens, including both guildsmen and journeymen, were prepared to seize the opportunity of getting rid of their Ehrbarkeit.
The theologians who directed the iconography of mediæval churches permitted the old guildsmen to translate into sign language their sensible idea that honest work was prayer.
The guildsmen do not expect a miracle to result from the disappearance of capitalist property rights.
It is unclear how the guildsmen think the scheme is going to be worked out and made acceptable in the modern world.
The guildsmen insist, however, that such criticism is blind because it ignores a great political discovery.
The guildsmen in their own minds have solved the question of how to conceive a common interest by playing with the word function.
The guildsmen also propose to establish equality by force, but are shrewd enough to see that if an equilibrium is to be maintained they have to provide institutions for maintaining it.
Whether the guildsmenelect a delegate, or a representative, they do not escape the problem of the orthodox democrat.
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.
Strangers and non-guildsmen could not buy or sell there except under the conditions imposed by the guild.
Did he wish that he had let the guildsmen have their way on that memorable occasion before the Bouverie gate?
In vain the lady of Ghistelle besought the guildsmen to spare her lord.
It was considered that the family were quite worn out enough with the care of the sick man during the day, and so one of his brother guildsmen came to relieve them of this duty at night.
The movement that led up to it had arisen amongst the guildsmen as well as the churchmen and the nobles of the preceding century.
The Guildsmen seem to think that this necessity to make or do something that is wanted implies slavery, and ought to be abolished.
The new guildsmen add what the old guildsmen would have added if they had not died young.
That the new guildsmen add a great deal that never belonged to the old guildsmen is not only a truth, but is part of the truth I maintain here.
There was a growth of moral morbidity as well as social inefficiency, especially in the governing classes; for even to the end the guildsmen and the peasants remained much more vigorous.
Among the Guildsmen wide social distinctions appeared, and the master-craftsman before long found himself, in relation to the rich trader or large-scale manufacturer, very much in the position of a labourer in relation to his employer.
National Guildsmen are seeking to formulate for modern industrial Society a principle of industrial self-government analogous to that which was embodied in the Mediaeval Guilds.
It is on the moral side that our League of Guildsmen comes in.
And as if his dismissal from the Chronicle were not bad enough, he joins these Guildsmen people who are trying to wreck the very basis of modern society.
Robert indulgently proceeded to say that the Guildsmen were young people of like sentiments with his own.
No, theGuildsmen were servers of the community, the Outlaws were spongers on it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guildsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
