burgomaster
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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.
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"I am Eduard Witschey, the burgomaster," he said.
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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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On the Carters' trip to Germany, Rosalynn delighted the burgomaster of Linz by grabbing his arms and rushing him into a polka-like Schunkeltanz in the street.
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He went there to confront his fatal enemy the burgomaster, and, by means of that parchment, whose history by-the-by was itself a romance, to make him disgorge; and give Margaret her own.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
