Apprentices

Examples

• An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The notion of the apprentices was still so odd to me that I asked Caddy if there were many of them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• What with schools, and classes here, and private pupils, AND the apprentices, he really has too much to do, poor fellow! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Then one evening there was a knock at the door of the living-room, and before he could answer it the door was opened, and the two apprentices, Dritzhn and Hielman, came in. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The limitation of the number of apprentices restrains it directly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Therefore we three adjourned to the apprentices together, and I made one in the dance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Both the apprentices showed the greatest interest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As a result of this interview a contract was drawn up between Gutenberg and his apprentices, according to the terms of which each apprentice was to pay the inventor two hundred and fifty florins. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But as he worked with his knives the apprentices grumbled about him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Bolsover himself apparently did not appreciate the importance of this invention, and it remained for Joseph Hancock, one of his apprentices, to develop the idea to a commercial success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The apprentices were the queerest little people. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The shop was now very busy, with the three apprentices and the master workman all occupied. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Gutenberg took the Abbot’s copy of the Biblia home, and he and the apprentices started work upon the wooden blocks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But the sale of books was small, and for two years more the apprentices grumbled, and protested that they should have stuck to the lapidary’s art. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In Norfolk and Norwich, no master weaver can have more than two apprentices, under pain of forfeiting five pounds a-month to the king. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I sat in the ball-room in the interval, contemplating the apprentices. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The apprentices had not the master’s skill in holding the letters together, and they grew discouraged as time after time the type would separate as they were ready to print from it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Davy, Scheele, Dumas, Balard, Liebig, W?hler, and a number of other distinguished ch emists, were apothecaries' apprentices. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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