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
Mairi,u means to go to a place to which honor should be shown; e.g., iglesia ie maire 'go to church!'
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear
And than he leide a sege to the cite of Rone and contynued; and duryng the sege the maire of London was chosen upon seint Edwardes day.”
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
I said that m'sieur le maire ought to be informed at once of such a calamity.
From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Alas! there has been an accident, m'sieur le maire!
From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes
