guildry

I get some of the tight lads of our guildry together, I might be able to help you in turn, but they are all squandered abroad like so many pease. —

Quentin Durward 2008

-- It is but a narrow stair, and you can keep the door with a pike, while I look from the window, and get together some of my brisk boys of the curriers 'guildry of Liege, that are as true as the knives they wear in their girdles.

Quentin Durward Walter Scott 1801

I get some of the tight lads of our guildry together, I might be able to help you in turn, but they are all squandered abroad like so many pease.

Quentin Durward Walter Scott 1801

They lay there that night, and the next day a considerable number of his friends in Fife, in good order, came to town in order to his burial, but the magistrates would not suffer him to be interred at Perth, but ordered the town militia to be raised, and imprisoned John Bryce, box-master or treasurer to the guildry, for returning to give out the militia's arms.

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

It is but a narrow stair, and you can keep the door with a pike, while I look from the window, and get together some of my brisk boys of the curriers’ guildry of Liege, that are as true as the knives they wear in their girdles. —

Quentin Durward 2008