Former Dutch currency

Usage examples of guilder.

Thurl, the Mistress Embalmer, her smell had moved in for the week and we were looking at a crested Guild-note for the sum of five hundred guilders.

Then we can collect on the ten thousand five hundred guilders the Ursors owe us, the two hundred and fifty the Embalmers owe us, and maybe take a holiday to sunny Tar Heetee, where I hear they serve cocktails in troughs full of little paper umbrellas .

In the liftless air of night all the hunters hiked on the ground, guarding the guilders and helping to carry their tools and belongings.

Miguel prepared a bowl of coffee and took a moment to think about his most pressing needs: how to raise five hundred guilders to complete the amount Isaiah Nunes required.

Chimer, in the industrial fringe of Lichford, areas under martial law but from which guilders, seditionists and the curious sometimes made their way into Dog Fenn or Creekside, begging entry.

I did hear them say at the Stadt Huys this morning, and Heer Vanderveer, the schepen, said there, too, that Dominie Curtius was not worth one of the five hundred guilders which he doth receive for our teaching.

Two guilder stone carvers watched and listened, their tools laid neatly before them, Tonto and X.

In doing so Drumfire had proved he was the fastest horse in Africa, and Jim had spurned an offer of two thousand guilders for him from Colonel Stephanus Keyser, the commander of the garrison.

In Nuremberg during the middle of the sixteenth century, the city council ordered a dyehouse built, with estimated construction costs of three thousand guilders.

With an income of 150,000 guilders per annum he was by far the richest man in the Netherlands, Egmont coming next with an income of 62,000.

It was late, I knew, for a cabby to be abroad, but I had little doubt that I should soon find some driver who would be glad to earn a few additional guilders, in spite of the dangerous nature of the business for which I wanted him.

The damage done to the sensitive electric and electronic machinery was very considerable and would almost certainly cost millions of guilders to replace but the structural integrity of the buildings was unaffected: Schiphol airport is very solidly built and securely anchored to its foundations.

Due to gross original underestimates, cost over-runs and inflation, the likely bill will probably be in excess of nine billion guilders - and this massive sum for a project that some crigineering experts say will not work anyway.

The demand is for one hundred million guilders from the government, twenty million from Mr David Joseph Karlmann Meijer, the Rotterdam industrialist.

The first of those concerned the demand for a hundred and twenty million guilders and how it is to be transferred.