Citations:burgher

English citations of burgher

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• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapoury jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon.