Or you may gaze, as Christian gazed every morning with continually new wonder, at the colors of the dawn brightening into sunrise, such as it looks on a winter's morning-so beautiful that it seems an almost equal marvel that nobody should care to see it but yourself, except perhaps a solitary Gownsman, a reading man, taking his usual constitutional just as a matter of duty, but apparently not enjoying it the least in the world.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Tom followed his friend, who made straight for the show man, and planted himself at his side, just as that worthy, pointing with his pole, was proceeding- "This is the jackal, from-" "The Caribee Hielands, of which I'm a native mysel'," shouted a Gownsman.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
They turned around to face the town, which came shouting down the street behind them in pursuit of one Gownsman, a little, harmless, quiet fellow, who had fallen them on his way back to his college from a tea with his tutor, and, like a wise man, was giving them leg-bail as hard as he could foot it.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes