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During the last 20 years of Max's burgomastership, his right arm in the City Council was a physician named Fran�ois van de Meulebroeck.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wish the devil would run off with this burgomastership.

From Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus by Holberg, Ludvig, baron

He was very ambitious for the burgomastership which, he flattered himself, he could discharge better than any body.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

Yes, I am dreaming, in such a way that I have dreamed us into a burgomastership GESKE.

From Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus by Holberg, Ludvig, baron

It need hardly be said that his burgomastership which, by the way, only lasts twenty-four hours, filled up with constant embarrassments, disillusionments and mortifications, finally turns out a complete failure.

From Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student by Hammer, Simon Christian