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For what seemed a year I hesitated, at the great burgomaster's table, with the long roll of parchment stretched out in front of me, and my pen poised, while the crowd goggled expectantly and the little burgomaster stood waiting to pounce on my signature with the sand-caster.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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Suddenly he perceives, Diemuth, the burgomaster's lovely daughter.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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Then the burgomaster's friends came and there was a fight in which ten men were killed.
The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen
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In the neighbourhood of these grounds there was a little summer-house, making part, if I recollect rightly, of an Amsterdam burgomaster's country place, who resided there at the times I speak of.
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Hans met her at a festival given in commemoration of the demise of the burgomaster's second wife -- I beg pardon, I mean in celebration of his union with his third bride.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various
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Frederick Katwingen started back on entering the burgomaster's room.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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Opening the burgomaster's letter, he ran through it in haste.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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After having got a plentiful supply at the burgomaster's house, they cross over to the opposite house, an old decayed building, called the Wizard's house.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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I shall not attempt to describe the strange sensations of Frederick on returning from the burgomaster's house It will have been seen from the glimpses we have had of him already, that he was of a quick and sensitive disposition, and that the chance of defeat in the approaching struggle would sting him into madness.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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Schütz had been twenty years dead, his long life and noble labours were fresh in the memory of his fellow townsmen, who were justly proud of their burgomaster's son.
Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands
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