Mayor example sentences

We get a sense of this change in Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge (1886).It is about Michael Henchard, a successful grain merchant, who becomes the mayor of the farming town of Casterbridge.But the thing that surprised me most was to see, on the back benches that were always empty, the village people sitting quietly like ourselves; old Hauser, with his three-cornered hat, the former mayor, the former postmaster, and several others besides.