When the clock in the townhall tower struck eight, the bells of the Franciscan convent close by began to ring, the roll of drums was heard proceeding from the courtyard, and the sad procession appeared in the market place.
In front of thetownhall a dais had been erected for the convenience of the sheriffs, mayor, and town councilors.
At two o'clock in the afternoon your husband goes to the townhall to attend to his business.
In the great square, where the townhall and the large covered market stand opposite to each other, that terrible edifice, generally called the scaffold, had been raised.
So, by your leave, the townhall first and my own house afterward.
V Last night it had been cried at the doorway of the Townhall that Madam, the wife of the Emperor Charles, being great with child, all men must pray for her speedy delivery.
On to the center and to the townhall pressed Harcourt, and with him now was Richard.
Away he rode, and he had to dismount and enter the townhall before he could have speech with his father.
Sir Geoffrey and his men were at the townhall now, and one of their first works had been to search for and to seize the official records and archives.
The court of the Duke of Wuertemberg sounds much grander than the townhall of Ulm.
Dinner is ready, gentlemen: you and I have not dined together, Albert, since that day in the townhall of Ulm.
I wouldn't be surprised if you grew up to be a mind reader, like that feller in the show we went to at the townhall a spell ago.
You stand up for me when that townhall paintin's to be done and I'll work hard for you now, Cap'n Whittaker.
Strasburg has seen riots: a Townhall torn to shreds, its archives scattered white on the winds; drunk soldiers embracing drunk citizens for three days, and Mayor Dietrich and Marshal Rochambeau reduced nigh to desperation.
Next morning, he resumes session, not at the Townhall as prudent Municipals counselled, but once more at the barracks.
Orleans drives off in his cabriolet; the Townhall Councillors rub their hands, saying, "It is done, It is done.
The Barriers are sometimes open, oftenest shut; no passports to be had; Townhall Emissaries, with the eyes and claws of falcons, flitting watchful on all points of your horizon!
They bound eastward, in sharp trot; their moral-certainty permeating the Village, from the Townhall outwards, in busy whispers.
But latterly they meet in the Hotel-de-Ville, in the Townhall itself.
And the Townhall is deaf; and the men are laggard and dastard!
For, alas, neither is theTownhall itself without misgivings.
Of which latter, as Loustalot acridly calculates, 'upwards of two thousand have been delivered within the last month, at the Townhall alone.
Middelburg is a good town; it has a very beautifulTownhall with a fine tower.
In the golden chamber in the Townhall at Brussels I saw the four paintings which the great Master Roger van der Weyden[32] made.
Besides this there were against the four columns of the townhall four kinds of poles, each bearing a small standard of greenish cloth, embellished with inscriptions in gold letters.
I should like to see written up weekly at the door of the townhall on a board ad hoc the names of all those who during the week got intoxicated on alcohol.
The National Guards, however, had gone up to the first floor of the townhall with buns spitted on their bayonets, and the drummer of the battalion carried a basket with bottles.
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