burgomaster

How To Use burgomaster In A Sentence

• I wish you had run all risks, and cudgelled the old burgomaster, stadholder, or whatever else he may be, soundly. The Purcell Papers
• In the Court's view, the events that prompted the burgomaster's direction in May 1968… are of a nature to justify an ‘emergency’ confinement of the kind provided for at that time under section 14 of the Netherlands Act.
• The Rwandan genocide could not have occurred without the existence of a strong and effective administrative structure-the burgomaster system-left over from the colonial period.
• Ten days later, I arrived with my trucks, while, back in Bevensen, a group of citizens chosen by the burgomaster were putting the final touches to the place of entertainment.
• This," exclaimed he, "if I mistake not, augurs well; the porpoise is a fat, well-conditioned fish, a burgomaster among fishes; his looks betoken ease, plenty, and prosperity; I greatly admire this round fat fish, and doubt not but this is a happy omen of the success of our undertaking. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
• They become betrothed, but the burgomaster Ghysbrecht, together with Gerard's scheming brothers and his outraged father, prevent the marriage and succeed in having the young man imprisoned.
• Mathias, the owner of an inn and mill in a village in Alsatia, is eager to become the local burgomaster.
• Stuyvesant allowed the burgomasters and schepens to nominate their successors, but the city did not have a schout of its own until 1660. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
• Katherine was placed with the family of Philip Reichenbach, burgomaster and town clerk, where she was treated kindly.
• He served for 30 years as burgomaster of Amsterdam being first appointed in 1672.