burgomaster

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

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Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in 1867, aged 15, the eighth of the ten sons of the burgomaster of Eubigheim, Germany.

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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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The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory.

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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