All rushed toward the entrance of the hall, through which the two burgomasters had just stepped into the outer reception-room.
The two burgomasters and the host of courtiers smiled when they glanced at the emperor, and looked grave and gloomy when they turned their eyes to the clouded brow of the king.
The large folding-doors opened, and between the two burgomasters appeared the slender, firmly-knit form of General Blucher.
Footnote 57: Sastrow's portrait is wanting in the collection of portraits of the burgomasters of Stralsund.
His two godfathers were the burgomasters Gaspard Bunsow and Peter Gruwel, and his great-grandmother stood as his godmother.
In order to save their heads, the magistrates found themselves compelled to share with their sworn enemies both the small bench of the four burgomasters and the larger bench of twenty-four councillors.
German burgomasters are most frequently elected by promotion from another city.
One of our leading burgomasters was good enough to say that he hoped it was so for the young woman's sake.
They say the burgomasters have caught him with letters on him from some terrible rebels up in Prussia, and that he has been plotting to have the city burned down.
To denounce him to the burgomasters as one of the Adlerstein retainers who robbed Philipp der Schmidt, and have him fast laid by the heels.
We answer, that the aldermen may choose other aldermen for a year, and one or two burgomasters from their own number also for a year.
You have asked us in your letter whether aldermen may choose other aldermen, and whether they may choose from among themselves burgomasters and Schoeffen without the consent of the burggrave.
On the following Monday the burgomastersexplained to a meeting of the citizens the terms offered by Nicolls.
Nicolls was now proclaimed by the burgomasters deputy-governor for the Duke of York, in compliment to whom he directed that the city of New Amsterdam should thenceforth be known as "New York.
Against this Stuyvesant earnestly remonstrated, and, finding that the burgomasters continued firm, in a fit of passion he "tore the letter in pieces.
One of the burgomasters of Luebeck was usually made president.
If we go, the people will follow," observed one of the burgomasters to the Margrave.
At last the two burgomasters and several of the most prominent members were commissioned to persuade him to retract his resolution.
He came to this country in the year '63 or '64, for the Lord Burgomasters of Amsterdam, as chief of their cargoes and storehouse in respect of the trade with the Indians, and thus was at the head of their office on the South River.
He transformed portraits of stolid Dutch burgomasters into pictures of fantastic beauty; but the likeness suffered, and the burgomasters were dissatisfied.
Send for him back when you will; all the burgomasters on earth daren't lay a finger on him.
He sent him for a table and writing materials, and dictated letters to the burgomasters in all the principal towns in Holland, and one to a Prussian authority, his friend.
He should inquire of the burgomasters about all new-comers, and should go to the fountains and watch the women and girls as they came with their pitchers for water.
The burgomasters of the several towns were commanded to aid all the poorer competitors by receiving their specimens and sending them with due care to Rotterdam at the expense of their several burghs.
The Emperor told him he was to be hanged, the town porter said it was well done, and the burgomasters were so terrified at this sentence that they made no word of answer, neither to approve it nor to oppose it.
The burgomasters and sheriffs were all assembled there; the sheriff Ian Guigelaar came out at the noise.
The Emperor, in deep anger, asked the two burgomasters if they did not deserve to be hanged for thus failing in respect to their sovereign.
But he condemned the burgomasters and sheriffs to wear spectacles on the back of their heads for six months, in order, said he, that if the Audenaerde folk do not see in front, they may at least see behind.
Some burgomasters refused to allow the document to be signed as it stood.
The burgomasters are personally responsible for ensuring that this warning receives the widest publication.
An account also will be demanded of the burgomasters concerned, and also of all the inhabitants of the houses or farms in which arms or munitions are found, as well as the neighbours of the guilty persons.
The plan[839] submitted to the burgomasters in the Requests and Representations, etc.
To the foregoing was joined the Address presented to the Burgomasters and the Council, which is of the following tenor.
In some cities, the Stadtholder elects only the sheriffs, in others the burgomasters and sheriffs, and in some, the counsellors of the cities also.
Nor will the conduct of the Burgomasters of Amsterdam be disavowed, nor M.
But the news from Carolina, and New York and the West Indies, but above all, the affair of the Burgomasters and Sir Joseph Yorke's Memorial, have struck a panic which must have time to wear off.
In 1688, when William of Orange needed a fleet to convoy him to England, the burgomasters of Amsterdam objected that the navy was incalculably decreased in strength, as well as deprived of its ablest commanders.
As has before been said, it was not until danger stared them in the face that the burgomasters were willing to pay for their defences.
The Burgomasters of Amsterdam paid him all honour, and he was entertained at the public expence.
The Curators with the Burgomasters of Leyden have the direction of whatever regards the welfare and advantage of the University; they chuse the Professors, and have the care of the finances and revenues for payment of their salaries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burgomasters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
