Tulip-exporting city

Usage examples of haarlem.

So, with Caspar to chaperone them, they had crossed the streets of Haarlem at dusk.

She hears about how hard it is to fund such a commercial venture, and the financial risks that are run, especially by the weavers of Haarlem, who are very involved this year.

Henrika and Cornelius van den Meer plan a feast for their friends in Haarlem and Amsterdam, for those who have staked sums of capital on the tulip cargoes, and also for those whose tongues are waggish and whose wallets are heavy.

Every morning, once the fast has been broken, and ablutions completed, and a few household tasks done, Iris and Ruth set out in their klompen to roam Haarlem and see what is to be seen.

If the cargo had been ruined, a number of Haarlem investors would have suffered serious losses.

As Margarethe spends less time in the kitchen, so she can be parading about the streets of Haarlem in new clothes, Clara takes up the slack by the hearth.

Margarethe out being the pride of Haarlem, making friends and spending money.

So the painters are in a stew to select their best two or three works and submit them to the Haarlem governors.

It seems that most of Haarlem relieves its worry over financial panic through gossip about the great she-elephant.

As if courtly intrigues are as regular to Haarlem tongues as herrings, crones buzz that in her late years Marie de Medici has become tired of matters of government.

There are plenty of occasions for Haarlem folk to disapprove, Iris notices, but not many people who receive the precious invitations actually turn them down.

What can I offer to a prince that any other young woman of Haarlem cannot?

Some suspected it was a plot of the Spaniards, infiltrating Haarlem and demoralizing the town before an attack.

I hear what I hear, even being led through the streets of Haarlem like a pig to the slaughterhouse.

England, with their heavy brows of thatch, nor like the more rectilinear Dutch homes of Haarlem streets.