The exchange for merchants may likewise pass for a famous pile of building, if compared to any other but ours in London, or the stadthouse at. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.] Reference
No sooner was he gone than the busy burgomasters called a public meeting in front of the stadthouse, where they appointed as chairman one Dofue. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
A huge dinner was prepared at the stadthouse in honor of the conquerors, where were assembled, in one glorious constellation, the great and little luminaries of New Amsterdam. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
To adorn the new stadthouse of Amsterdam, erected in 1665, three hemispheres were wrought in stone, of twenty-two feet in diameter: the circles were inlaid with brass, and were executed by a celebrated artist. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tasmania, Volume I] Reference
India Company might have perfect intelligence of the extent and situation of this now-found country before they executed the plan they were then contriving for preventing its being visited or farther discovered by their own or any other nation; and this too accounts for the care taken in laying down the map of this country on the pavement of the new stadthouse at Amsterdam; for as this county was henceforward to remain as. From Wordnik.com. [Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier] Reference
Neither am I disposed to credit an ancient and rather apocryphal historian who asserts that the ingenious Wilhelmus was annihilated by the blowing down of one of his windmills; nor a writer of latter times, who affirms that he fell a victim to an experiment in natural history, having the misfortune to break his neck from a garret window of the stadthouse in attempting to catch swallows by sprinkling salt upon their tails. From Wordnik.com. [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference
Neither am I disposed to credit an ancient and rather apocryphal historian, who asserts that the ingenious Wilhelmus was annihilated by the blowing down of one of his windmills, nor a writer of later times, who affirms that he fell a victim to an experiment in natural history, having the misfortune to break his neck from a garret window of the stadthouse in attempting to catch swallows by sprinkling salt upon their tails. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
Meanwhile, in order to divert his imagination, he went to see the stadthouse, park, and arsenal, took a superficial view of the booksellers’ cabinet of curiosities, and spent the evening at the Italian opera, which was at that time exhibited for the entertainment of Prince Charles of Lorraine, then governor of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
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