"Gulden" Quotes from Famous Books
... and, with all that, scanty means and a husband who preferred giving to receiving, and who once, in his zeal, when she was in bed with a young child, even seized the silver baptismal presents of the child in order to give alms. Luther, in 1527, for instance, could not afford even eight gulden for his former prior and friend Briesger. He writes to him sadly: "Three silver cups (wedding presents) are pawned for fifty gulden, the fourth is sold. The year has brought one hundred gulden of debts. Lucas Kranach will not go security for me any ... — The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various
... I'll rustle for the border. I'll get in with Kells and Gulden... You'll hear of me, ... — The Border Legion • Zane Grey |