burgomaster
Example Sentences
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In 1914 Adolphe Max had been Brussels' burgomaster for five years when the Kaiser's armies clomped over the border.
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Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.
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Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster.
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The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory.
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“Know you that?” he inquired of his companion, the chief burgomaster of the city.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Bull, Jacob B.
