burgomaster

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So. too. it seemed last week when, on the Vienna model, a new burgomaster and four vice burgomasters were appointed for Sofia by government decree.

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To Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, as to many another metropolitan burgomaster, hotel owners have recently complained most bitterly.

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

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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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He is leagues away by now,' quoth I. Confound that chalk-faced girl! she has out-witted us bearded men: and so I told the burgomaster, but he would not hear to reason.

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