The Earl of Chell, a magnate of the county, had consented to wear the mayoral chain and dispense the mayoral hospitalities on condition that he was provided with a deputy for daily use.
The London mayoral elections were hotly fought over until in 1285, when the aldermen began to act with the aid of an elected council in each of the twenty-four wards, which decentralized the government of the city.
The controlling officers of the large guilds met at the Guildhall, which became the seat of mayoral authority.
He gazed with longing, and then tucked the wand under his elbow, took a flying leap on to the arm of the mayoral chair, ran up to the back of it, and sprang at the beard.
He admired and examined the mayoral furniture, appurtenances, ornaments; the busts, pictures and tapestry, appraising their value with eager professional interest.
We all appeal to Don Severiano, and, at our earnest request, that humane gentleman orders his mayoral to let the culprit off.
Renal had returned to the town, for mayoral business, two days after their arrival in Vergy.
After having crossed the road with a solemn step, he enters the mayoral residence and disappears from the eye of the traveller.
It was a big room, panelled in old oak to half the height of its walls; above the panelling hung numerous portraits of past occupants of the Mayoral chair and some old engravings of scenes in the town.
It had no doubt been used by many occupants of the Mayoral chair during their term of office.
You only got elected to the Mayoral chair by one vote, and if you are fool enough to think that you and those behind you are strong enough to upset things you'll find yourself wrong, for you won't be allowed.
So I judged my bathing to be an episode of rare and anxious interest to themayoral family.
The entiremayoral household, with my batman and others, were assembled in the big kitchen, separated from the chamber of my ablutions only by a door having no kind of fastening and but one hinge.
More than seventy such mayoral chains have been made here since then.
He sometimes is indulged with a ride by the side of the mayoral on the box, when he always uses the tail of the hind mule to pull himself up into his seat.
Brenchfield opened the door, and smiling an urbane mayoral "Good afternoon," that all in the main office could hear, he ushered Phil out.
Morrison was not very responsive, and the Mayor excused himself on the plea of his ankle, his want of sleep and the further pressure of mayoral business.
They sucked back firing as they went, and taking with them the red mayoral flag they had carried.
The civil services, the mayoral staff, the judges of the tribunal, judges of the commercial court, Procureur of the Republic and so forth gave a little more trouble.
It was in fact the mayoral parlour, and the comfortable office coat and even the dressing-gown of the late occupant still hung on the pegs behind the door.
At last I turned my face towards the market square, which I entered by the little dusky street of the Arches, and so came suddenly upon the Keller house at the angle opposite to the mayoral belfry.
Speculation as to where he kept the mayoral chain reached the length of one wild suggestion that he put it under his pillow at night.
I attended the Abbey in my mayoral robes, and when the ceremony was over I escaped from the crowd as quickly as I could, and was going to a house near by to take off my robes.
Crooks felt he could better retain the confidence of his neighbours, and better meet the criticisms of opponents, by refusing a Mayoral grant entirely.
How far his efforts succeeded is shown by the presentation made to him and Mrs. Crooks at the close of the mayoral year.
Other mayoral chains blazed in the centre of the platform, together with fine hats of mayoresses and uniforms of police-superintendents and captains of fire-brigades.
His recent refusal of the mayoral chain, due to lack of spare coin, had been attributed to prudence.
He had been solemnly in the mayoral procession to church, he had attended meetings of the council, he had been nominated to the Watch Committee.
And the Countess and her saviour entered the portico and were therein met by an imposing group of important male personages, several of whom wore mayoral chains.
No such multitudes ever greeted a mayoral procession in Bursley before.
The eminence to which he has risen never makes him lose his head or forget that kind hearts are more than coronets, and only very little inferior to a Mayoral Chain of office.
How could it be expected that he should think differently when he had seen his mother and sisters feasting at the Mayoral ball one night, and cutting the Mayor the next day when they met him in the street?
Ere long, the mayoral of the diligence came out from under his vehicle, where he had slept on the grass, gave his animals their forage, washed the wounds produced by the harness, and then began summoning the travellers.
The mayoral mounted to his box, lashed his mules, and the vehicle started at a pace not very reassuring for those whom it contained, and who ran a risk of breaking their bones at every turn of the road.
I have senor," the mayoralreplied with a false laugh.
The mayoral hesitated a moment, but then, instead of stating as he was ordered, he rapidly got down from his box and went up to the officer.
The mayoral comes, of necessity, from the middle class of whites, and is usually a native Cuban, and it is not often that a satisfactory one can be found or kept.
The mayoral is, under the master or his administrador, the chief mate or first lieutenant of the ship.
At each station are its hangers-on of free Negroes, a few slaves on duty as carriers, a few low whites, and now and then someone who looks as if he might be an overseer or mayoral of a plantation.
The regular and permanent officers of a plantation are the mayoral and mayordomo.
The mayoral told us that in the dry season, when the water was low, the remains of stone embankments were still visible in several places.
I was strongly tempted to turn aside and examine it, but, on account of the thickness of the cane-brake and the mud, it would have been impossible to reach it, and the mayoral said that it was entirely in ruins.
Leaving my horse in the cattle-yard, in company with the mayoral I walked to the campo santo.
This storm, we were told, rarely occurred at this season, and the mayoral said that after it was over, the regular dry season would certainly set in.
The mayoral was away, the doors were all locked, and I lay down on some bags in the corridor.
Except the mayoral of Uxmal, I had never seen one of them before, and as I considered it important to have a reliable man outside, I stationed him at the door with a ball of twine.
The mayoral had lately discovered another at some distance outside the wall, so perfect at the mouth, and apparently so deep on sounding it with a stone, that Don Simon wished to explore it.
A week after our arrival at the ruins the mayoral had received a letter from him, asking whether a visit would be acceptable to us.
It was impossible to continue on horseback, and, fortunately, the mayoral came, who changed the whole face of things and in a few minutes had men engaged in making a coche.
In the suburbs the mayoral and I interchanged sentiments about breakfast, and, after making a circle in the plaza, he struck off direct for the house of the cura.
And he calmly proposed that Mr Blackshaw should show the mayoral aunt over the new Electricity Works!
His Worship entered the private office with mayoral assurance, pulling in his wake a stout old lady whom he introduced as his aunt from Wolverhampton.
I didn't know there was any electric machinery as old as that,' said the mayoral aunt.
So Mr Blackshaw's fury at the inept appearance of the Mayor and the mayoral aunt at this critical juncture may be imagined.
There was some talk between our conductors, and then the mayoral opened the door and invited us to get out.
What, then, would he say to this wild proposition of a few so-called 'progressive' women to put his daughter in the mayoral chair of Roma?
Did any man ever take possession of the mayoral chair with purer hopes or more worthy ambitions?
Mayoral praise is sweet, butmayoral instructions hard to follow.
He had found himself, early in his third term of mayoral office, the father of a bouncing boy.
The mayoral went out, and returned a minute after, followed by Rafael.
The worthy mayoral had arrived at this point in his reflections, when Don Inigo Albaceyte and Don Ramon appeared in the patio.
The mayoral bowed respectfully, and immediately gave the necessary orders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mayoral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
