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I am convinced that awful magistrate my lord-mayor contracts a good deal of that reverence which attends him through the year, by the several pageants which precede his pomp.
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Baden Baden's lord-mayor Dr Lang, before being whisked off to his luxury hotel, a 30-minute drive from Baden Baden.
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We remember in the upper end of the hall, and just behind the chair, there stood in a niche, a full-sized statue, carved in wood by Edward Pierce, statuary, of Sir William Walworth, a member of this company, and lord-mayor during the rebellion of Wat Tyler.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 Various
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Captain Capel, from Admiral Nelson to the city of London, with the following letter, which he had several days previously written for the lord-mayor.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
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The address was moved by Sir James Sanderson, lord-mayor of London, who affirmed that seditious practices were prevalent; that various political societies were established in London, which corresponded and confederated with other societies in different parts of the
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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Captain Edward Berry: and the lord-mayor, Sir William Anderson, Bart, was requested to provide and present the said sword to the Hero of the
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
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By this will, the succession of Mary and Elizabeth, his two sisters, was entirely superseded, from an apprehension of the returning system of popery; and the king's council, with the chief of the nobility, the lord-mayor of the city of London, and almost all the judges and the principal lawyers of the realm, subscribed their names to this regulation, as a sanction to the measure.
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Stay and dine with us -- if Charley ever has those onions done -- and you'll feast like a lord-mayor!
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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With the exception of the great bell of St. Paul's, which tolls only on the occasion of the death of a member of the royal family or of a lord-mayor in office, the bells of all the churches in the city were booming slowly through the day, and so evident was the general sorrow that it could be truly said that the heart of the nation mourned.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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One of these, -- who accepted wine orders exclusively -- wore a chain on his neck like some lord-mayor.
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