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
And in this yere Sr. Nicholl Brembre was chosene maire of London be stronge hand of certeyne craftes of London.
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 Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir
As I am the maire, I must wait for news.
From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams
He was minister of war in 1792, and maire de Paris 1793.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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 Lowndes, Marie Belloc
