Proctors of the University keep a Court there also to hear complaints about weights and measures, seek out and punish lewd women, and see that their Gownsmen commit no disorders.
Athos may always be found," replied Treville, "ready to answer, when it shall please the gownsmen to interrogate him.
And is the written report of the gownsmen to be placed in comparison with the word of honor of a swordsman?
A loud murmur of applause arose from thegownsmen who filled the hall.
They brought two gownsmen of Christ Church with them, companions of Andrews, who were quite as talkative and nearly as rude and boisterous as themselves.
But under all this wanton display of violence, the gownsmen practised the severest forbearance.
He accumulated considerable property as a confectioner, from placing his daughters, who were pretty genteel girls, behind his counter, where they attracted a great many gownsmen to the shop.
Dan and his companions posted on behind, sparing neither whip nor spur, for they were affronted that these gownsmen should display more energy in their master's cause, and the cause of his friends, than they should do themselves.
Again, the young men took long walks in the neighbourhood of Oxford, and committed boyish extravagances of costume and demeanour that made the gownsmen titter over their wine in the common rooms.
It was not for them to make reply or reason why, but to see that the law for uniformity of religious sentiment was duly respected by the gownsmen of every academic grade.
Unused to being questioned in this violent way, the town party at last turned and fled, and the gownsmen went in search of other foes to conquer.
Exeter College, he had barely breath enough left to tell the porter to keep the gate shut until he had assembled a body of Gownsmen to assist him in capturing those daring ringleaders of the mob who had set his authority at defiance.
And darker tales still have been told of luckless Gownsmen having been borne "leg and wing" fashion to the very banks of the Isis, and there ducked, amidst the jeers and taunts of their persecutors.
The bells began to toll for evening service, and Frank Maurice, excusing himself to Mary and her cousin, wished them good evening and joined thegownsmen with whom Henry Halford had a few minutes before made his appearance.
He was up soon after seven; and while the gownsmen were rising and in their respective chapels, he had been round Magdalen Walk and Christ Church Meadow.
Then there is one man in the world more thoughtless than you: do many of the gownsmengo there?
So that not only the gownsmen but the townsmen were ready to welcome them with cheers, and to acclaim them eagerly as the queens of the day.
The meadows below were thronged withgownsmen from the various colleges, as well as by crowds of townsfolk, all in holiday attire, who had streamed out of the gates to hear the singing.
The streets of Oxford used to be the scenes of great encounters between the townsmen and gownsmen (or college students) on this night, who, on any other night in the year, never thought of fighting.
Happily in recent years these fights have ceased, but even now the gownsmen are "gated" on the night of the Fifth of November, i.
Doubtless, too, there were already strained relations between the townsmen and the gownsmenat Cambridge as at Oxford.
The townsmen under great provocation had seized three of the gownsmen in hospitio suo and threw them into the gaol.
In these early times the gownsmen dared not contemplate the erection of a senate-house wherein to hold their meetings.
Three thousand of the gownsmen migrated elsewhere, some to Cambridge we learn.
Lord Glandore's regiment was detached to sweep the riff-raff to the Liberties at once, then to coax back in less violent fashion the gownsmen to Alma Mater.
What the gownsmen intended for a frolic developed into a riot, thanks to the national love of a row and the complicated feuds which were continually breaking forth.
Here graceful gownsmen silent glide, Or noisy louts on hobnails slide, Whilst lads the confines keep Exacting pence from every one As payment due for labour done As constantly they sweep.
The gownsmen were not the only people who had a rooted objection to them on principle.
While still gownsmen this triumvirate gave signs of their future greatness.
It is sad to record that the quarrel arose in a tavern, where two gownsmen abused the vintner for serving them with wine of wretched quality.
They were too late to see the Vice-Chancellor wind up the clock of Christ Church; but as they passed by the college, they met two gownsmen who recognized Mr. Larkyns by a slight nod.
By the time Mr. Bouncer finished these words, the coach appropriately drew up at the "Mitre," and the passengers tumbled off amid a knot of gownsmen collected on the pavement to receive them.
JPG> body of Gownsmen were beginning to get roughly handled; but the succour afforded by the Pet and his party soon changed the aspect of affairs; and, after a brief skirmish, there was a temporary cessation of hostilities.
Wesley is at Oxford; and that forty gownsmen were lately to hear brother Kinchin expound.
The church was surrounded by gownsmen of all degrees, who stood attentive at the windows during my sermon.
But few friends are left at Oxford; yet the Lord hath given me great encouragement out of His holy word, and I hope that some gownsmen will yet be added to our number.
A lion is also a name given by the gownsmen of Oxford to an inhabitant or visitor.
An appellation given by the gownsmen of the university of Oxford to the inhabitants of that place.
The gownsmen in a compact body, with Donovan in the middle, pushed rapidly across the open space in which the caravans were set up and gained the street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gownsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
