burgomaster
Example Sentences
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The Queen's Commissioner arrived, Burgomaster Witschey said grace in Dutch, and dinner proceeded: three stout courses followed by brandy and a speech by the burgomaster.
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Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist.
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The burgomaster, with relish rather than resolution, did so immediately.
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Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.
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"Oh, Gerard! who think you, hath sent to our house seeking you?—the burgomaster himself."
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
