burgomaster

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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.

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Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.

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The burgomaster, feeling his responsibilities, grew nervous and asked for police reserves; he was promised 30 men for Sunday morning.

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Says Willi Kaiser, the burgomaster of Bedburg, which includes the village of Kaster: "In the end people are usually satisfied."

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"What have we to do with that," said the burgomaster, "save and except that if thou wilt pledge thyself to break the law no more, I will remit the imprisonment, and exact but the fine."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles