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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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.
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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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Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.
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"Oh, then the burgomaster knows something?" said Catherine, sharply.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
