Holland and brother-in-law to the adventurer, paid him the fifty thousand gulden still due on his wife's dower and gave him twelve battle-ships in addition.
The latest existing representative of the ancient gold gulden is the ducat, worth generally a half-sovereign in English.
He was only one of many “assistants” and he had to live under his father’s roof, though he did earn forty gulden a year.
Father Schubert’s position was far from lucrative; in fact, it offered no salary at all, nothing but a tax of one gulden a month per child levied on the parents.
Diabelli once persuaded him to sign over for a mere 800 Gulden all his rights in a set of works.
The wages, which averaged ten gulden a year, hardly sufficed to pay for their shoes.
But this being in the autumn, after Lamboy had quartered himself with every one and everywhere, my winter quarters cost me more than five hundredgulden in thirty-five weeks, which I had to settle with Captain Krebs.
I have still the testimony of the Lindenauers, wherein they acknowledge that I did not in five years get ten gulden in money; but they have since honestly paid me the arrears in wood and apples.
Thus by their refractory conduct they daily obtained a gulden or more; their boys pilfered where they could, and were notorious poachers.
In the Imperial army the pay, exclusive of food, was nine gulden to the pikeman and six to the musketeer.
The soldier in quarters received nothing but his pay, which in 1600, for the common foot soldier, amounted to from fifteen to sixteen gulden a month.
Saxony in 1621, hoped to get from fifty to sixty thousand guldens from the Fuggers, and endeavoured in vain to borrow thirty and seventy thousand gulden from capitalists.
May the devil fetch me, if that is not worth fifty gulden to me!
The vicar of Syczkow was ill, and the vicar of the adjacent village demanded twelve gulden for this service.
If you offered him twenty thousand gulden this year as hush-money, he would take it thankfully, and next year would demand twenty thousand more.
The loss of his ten gulden and the blasphemy, as he calls it, grieve him, so that he is having an appeal drawn up by some pettifogger here to present to the archbishop of Lemberg.
Of the three hundred gulden the count promised him monthly, he received one hundred, a sum upon which he could live very comfortably in Mohilev.
Here are twenty gulden besides for your journey home.
This latter system, after the accession to it of Bavaria, obtained the name of the Convention Standard, and the 2-gulden pieces minted under it are styled the Species or Convention Thaler.
In order to mark the difference it was determined to coin in future only silver gulden = 60 kreutzers, while the goldgulden was put at 75 kreutzers.
I would have gone away without rewarding their blackmail with another penny; but in desperation Starr turned and dashed four or five gulden at the crowd.
I should want at least three hundred dollars extra, down in advance (I can't do it in gulden in my head) for your sake.
On the lock-keeper the sight of the Club flag had a magic effect, and he evidently intended to make its rights respected, no doubt counting on a fivegulden "tip" at the end.
It wouldn't do for him to make the presents himself, as the girls were proud, though their fathers earned only five gulden a week; but she would give them, and then it would be all right.
Your letter said a hundred gulden a week to a suitable aunt, and a two months' engagement certain.
We next went to the house of the Bavarian envoy, where I received a gulden and a good shirt.
Arriving at my destination, I found occupation with a shoemaker who, however, declared that my work was not of a very high character and paid me only one gulden a week, with insufficient food.
If Herr von Hartl had accepted this, there would have been four thousand gulden net profit a year in it.
They comprehended the process quickly and soon were so skillful that each earned twelve gulden and more a week, despite the fact that we rarely paid them more than twenty and twenty-four kreuzer for each sheet.
For this he promised me the sum of two thousand gulden, of which he paid down three hundred gulden on the spot.
He had gone into foreign lands in his youth, but when he obtained the ten thousand gulden from Count Saurau, he selected his native place for the works.
The very next day he told me that a cotton-printer in Vienna, Herr Blumauer, would pay me five hundred gulden for a small model press for cylinder printing on cotton.
Instead of demanding a fulfillment of the contract, he sued for twelve thousand guldendamages for their loss of time.
An acquaintance, who served in the artillery, had offered to pay two hundred gulden for a substitute.
Grund succeeded in inducing Herr von Hartl to increase his investment during the first year so that the original capital of six thousand gulden that was already sunk in the work had grown to twenty thousand gulden.
I would need a dwelling, for which I would have to pay at least one hundred gulden in advance.
The six printers to operate the three presses would cost four gulden a day also.
The sum that he asked for everything was forty thousand gulden, of which only ten thousand gulden were to be paid at once, the rest being paid in annual installments during the following ten years.
In the two latter classes all had the suffrage who paid at least ten gulden in direct taxes.
The coinage of the gold four- and eight-gulden was suspended.
It is only in England," said Haydn, "that one can make 4000 gulden in one evening.
In addition, the said Joseph Heyden shall have board at the officers' table, or half a gulden a day in lieu thereof.
The son was obliged to become a soldier, because Nathan could not pay the fifty gulden that were required to obtain his release.
The sale of these articles brought him five gulden in all, because at the last moment he threw in some prayer-books that he did not want.
He clinched the argument by playing on the people's covetousness: for the fourth part of a gulden they could transfer a suffering soul safely to the home of the eternal paradise.
He forged a document which he declared to be a copy of a genuine treaty, and got 4000 gulden for his pains.
Thus the priory of Wuerzburg gives one thousand gulden yearly, and Bamberg, Mainz, and Trier pay their quotas.
The waggon had been provided by the good town of Wittenberg, which had also hired Christian Goldschmidt and his three horses at three gulden a day.
The old man caught thegulden greedily between his fingers, and examined it for a moment, weighing it.
So," he said grimly, "Now go, and keep the rest of the gulden for yourself.
The ceremony was performed in Innsbruck by proxy only; but the dowager-archduchess provided great fetes, in which the city readily concurred, and gave the bride thirty thousand gulden for her wedding present.
The Protestant bishop was assigned a miserable pittance of six hundred Gulden so that Amsdorf, as Luther declared, had been better off at Magdeburg.
If both the others fail, calumny must be resorted to, to relieve subjects from the burden of some thousand gulden according to their means.
At last the poor comedians were likewise obliged to pay a gulden for each representation, and even the quack and eye doctors paid at each yearly market a few kreuzers, and heavy claims were made on the Jews.
After their return home the people of Lucerne and Unterwalden raised the war-banner and fell on the territory of Constance, the inhabitants of which had to pay 5000 gulden as an expiation.
She had for some years kept her own accounts in respect of a property which she had inherited from an uncle at Coburg, amounting to a thousandgulden or more.
The pheasants and partridges were caponed and fed, a brace cost as much as a ducat; it was thought horrible that these spendthrifts gave a guldenfor a fresh herring, and from eight to ten thalers for a hundred oysters.
Luther had been offered 200 Gulden by the Landgrave as a present, but had refused the gift, is, in both instances, founded on a misunderstanding.
When, once upon a time, we believed that God rewarded our works, I ran to the monastery, and you gave ten guldentowards building a church.
I have heard that sixty Bavarian kreuzers are equal to one hundred Austrian; but this waiter explains to me that my gulden is only good for ninety kreuzers.
Remembering that it takes one hundred kreuzers to make a gulden in Austria, I launch out a Bavarian gulden, and expect ten kreuzers in change.
The appanage I concede to the Princess Dowager Johanna Elizabetha is ten thousand gulden a year beside her own small marriage dowry.
Gulden flowed regularly and without stint, and each day more foreigners arrived to give their talents in return for broad gold pieces.
He vows that if more gulden cannot be lured into his pocket, he must retire from court.
He laid a packet on the table, cut the string with his knife, and began to undo four long rolls within, disclosing the bright edges of twenty-five golden gulden in each roll.
Twenty thousand, nay, even forty thousand, guldenthey would pay, but two hundred thousand!
Twenty thousand gulden on the day of our contract, twelve thousand gulden a year for his life.
Besides, it is she who has the gulden which you accused me of purloining; she to whom half your revenues are carried, and you are doled out a paltry sum which, after all, you spend again upon this creature.
The gulden had a way of flowing into Forstner's pocket, and, so Frisoni vowed, but few came out again.
The grateful burghers voted their Duke a free present of forty thousand gulden on his return, and to his Duchess ten thousand gulden.
Schütz returned to Schaffhausen with this news, and was immediately re-despatched to Stuttgart with a demand for two hundred thousand guldenas the price of her renouncement.
His Majesty even promised her twenty thousand gulden as compensation for any wrong done to her in Wirtemberg.
But Wilhelmine had fewgulden to spare, and she decided to wander about the town until the ordinary diligence started for Rottenburg.
Did not thy father, peace be upon him, promise me two hundred gulden with her?
Bear had spent several gulden upon his head-gear, and could not see the joke.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gulden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
