burgomaster
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"I am Eduard Witschey, the burgomaster," he said.
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The burgomaster, with relish rather than resolution, did so immediately.
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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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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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"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
