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The setting is Priestley's favourite time and place - middle-class Yorkshire, 1912 – where a suave, somewhat sinister plain-clothes cop intrudes on a wealthy burgher's complacent family dinner party and with considerable relish exposes the rats beneath the floorboards, showing how the family is collectively responsible for the destruction and suicide of an innocent working-class girl.

An Inspector Calls 2010

Soon he'll have several more houses, including a burgher's cottage and a 17th-century Spanish hacienda, on the block.

Farms Across The Water 2008

He bent his head to look down at it (momentarily giving his long Yankee face an amusing burgher's double chin), then tucked it into his shirt.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

Llysette was more likely to be a target of some burgher's pampered daughter than Miranda.

Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

Some were designed along the lines of those a Member of Parliament or a University don wore, others seemed to be recreations of a medieval burgher's festive attire.

The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

For an instant he dropped free, and then with a shock that knocked the wind from both of them, he drove into the burgher's chest.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

"Kom, ons slaat aan," the burgher's mouth was an inch from Sean's ear, and the voice was unmistakable.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

Or like some Porter burgher's unfaithful wife or troublesome girlfriend whom he'd personally carted out beyond the ridges of cleaned-out hot dust that help guard such places, and then abandoned in revenge or from boredom -- and they call themselves civilized, those cultural queers!

The Night of the Long Knives Fritz Leiber 1951

Oh, did you think that you, a queen, could play as securely as some burgher's wife the pleasant comedy of an amorous intrigue?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

When the beginnings of the modern industrial order appeared and burghers shared with knights and yeomen the social responsibility, "a burgher's son acquired freedom and legal responsibility when he could count and measure broadcloth."

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer