They also regarded it as their providential duty to emphasize the joke-to sharpen up the point by scoring about a hundred and ten points on the scared young greenhorns who would have to play for us.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
The old hands had kept the matter quiet from us greenhorns, so that, although we knew they were going to do some sort of mischief, we didn't exactly understand what it was to be.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne
He had been scared, going in; well, who hadn't been, except a few greenhorns brave with the valor of ignorance.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper