maire
Example Sentences
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Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
But he's the maire, and one can't quarrel with him.'
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
This is the maire, and these the magistrates.
From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
"Let that maire be brought before me," said I, with a haughty indignation.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
Sergeaunts of the maire and the schirreves of London schulde b’re maces of silv’.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
