Apprenticed

Examples

• He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At last she came here, apprenticed for three years. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But boys cannot well be apprenticed ultimately: they should be apprenticed at fifteen. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He was apprenticed to a good master and made rapid progress, but the climate of London was bad for his health, and as soon as his term of instruction was finished he went back to Scotland. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He was apprenticed to a barber at Bolton, and later took up that business for himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I was apprenticed when I was seven year old. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The girls were trained by their mothers, the boys either by their fathers or by some master to whom they were apprenticed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You had better be apprenticed at once. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I could be apprenticed to your trade--the cloth-trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had better have apprenticed her,' said Childers, giving his hair another shake, as he looked up from the empty box. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Within a few weeks he became apprenticed to an apothecary and surgeon, and, having thus found his vocation, drew up his own particular plan of self-education, to which he rigidly adhered. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Benjamin, born at Boston, twenty-one years after his father's emigration, was the youngest of ten sons, all of whom wer e eventually apprenticed to trades. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is creditable to you, who have never been apprenticed, to express that opinion,' returned Mr. Gradgrind, approvingly. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Meaning the master you were to be apprenticed to? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Editor: Vito