burgomaster
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Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist.
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The stereotype of the small-city mayor is a Babbittish burgomaster who divides his time between Rotary luncheons and Boy Scout wiener roasts.
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Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in 1867, aged 15, the eighth of the ten sons of the burgomaster of Eubigheim, Germany.
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The burgomaster, with relish rather than resolution, did so immediately.
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He went there to confront his fatal enemy the burgomaster, and, by means of that parchment, whose history by-the-by was itself a romance, to make him disgorge; and give Margaret her own.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
