gownsman
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gownsmen
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Before he could reply, the colonel and his wife drew near, and Charles quickly introduced the young gownsman, whom he had seen more than once, and of whom he had heard favourable accounts.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull
Up sprang Inspector Fluffy, Up Sergeant Jaggard rose, And playfully with staff he tapped A gownsman on the nose.
From Cambridge Pieces by Samuel Butler
Captain Gulliver, though a sailor, I would have you to know, was a gownsman of Cambridge: so says Swift, who knew more about the Captain than anybody now-a-days.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
A plain squire, he was told, was as likely to serve the country well as the most fluent gownsman, who was ready, for a guinea, to prove that black was white.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Why should he know that I was not a gownsman?
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
With that, townsmen, gownsmen, and the entire city council rose in wrath.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Then there is one man in the world more thoughtless than you: do many of the gownsmen go there?"
From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman
A small group of gownsmen rushed to his rescue.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
One by one the gownsmen dodged like rabbits into their holes, leaving me, who knew nothing of the city, almost alone.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed
Henry observed, "Yet you gownsmen should be best at such exercises, which are not meet for men who are more stirring."
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
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