Then the notion occurred to Maitland that his original despatch, as he wrote it, might have been mislaid in the office, and that the imaginative clerk who lost it might have filled it up from memory, and, like the examinees in the poem, might "Have wrote it all by rote, And never wrote it right."
"The Mark Of Cain"
Andrew Lang
He acted as examiner, conducting for instance, during the years 1856 to 1863, and again 1865 to 1870, the examinations in physiology and comparative anatomy at the University of London, making even an examination paper feel the influence of the new spirit in biology; and among his examinees at that time there was at least one who, knowing Huxley's writings, but his writings only, looked forward to the viva voce test, not as a trial but as an occasion of delight.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell
What loads of cold beef and lobster vanish before the examinees.
"A Collection of College Words and Customs"
Benjamin Homer Hall