Prentice

Examples

• When I became Joe's 'prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I believe Prentice was the father of the humorous paragraph of the American newspaper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A prentice, sir! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Prentice, then editor of the Courier-Journal, and Mr. Tyler, of the Associated Press. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But, of course, the bombing of those 'prentice days would be child's play to the bombing of the next war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You're a going to be made a 'prentice of, Oliver. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Prentice would pour out half a glass of what they call corn whiskey, and would dip the crackers in it and eat them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• After the paper had gone to press, Prentice would generally come over to Tyler's office and start talking. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had gone out to dinner; but his 'prentice (which is a very clever lad) sent 'em some medicine in a blacking-bottle, offhand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Tyler was a graduate of Harvard, and had a very clear enunciation, and, in sharp contrast to Prentice, he was a large man. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From gentlemen to 'prentices. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The 'prentices giggle internally and nudge each other. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Snagsby descends and finds the two 'prentices intently contemplating a police constable, who holds a ragged boy by the arm. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Is this young gentleman one of the 'prentices or articled ones of your office? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The 'prentices think somebody may have been murdered there in bygone times. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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