He contented himself with a mild expression of his surprise at the conduct of the Sydney authorities in putting a "towny" over his head without so much as a word of notice.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
How splendid and brown and fit he looked, compared with those two pale, towny creatures!
"Beyond"
John Galsworthy
This made her think that the elder man was a "towny," and not a frontiersman like the other.
"Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories"
Bret Harte