My most cordial thanks are due to him, to the Warden and to the bursar, for their kindness in allowing me access to the library, and also to all the documents referring to it.
"The Care of Books"
John Willis Clark
About this time, however, the Dean and bursar, and the tutors who lived in college, began to be conscious that something unusual was going on.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
On the first landing the bursar trod on a small terrier belonging to a fast freshman, and the dog naturally thereupon bit the bursar's leg; while his master and other enfants perdus, taking advantage of the diversion, rushed down the dark stairs, past the party of order, and into the quadrangle, where they scattered amidst a shout of laughter.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes