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  • Almost immediately, the Captain saw something in the skinny, hungry lad from Gary—some spark of raw intelligence, perhaps—and took him as a protege.†  (source)
  • The chauffeur — he was one of Wolfshiem's protégés — heard the shots — afterward he could only say that he hadn't thought anything much about them.†  (source)
  • Meanwhile she lay on her bed with old Joanna at her side, for even in her wanderings she did not forget her forlorn protege.†  (source)
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  • 'Now, Potter —' He made the same slashing movement with his wand that he had used on Hermione just as Harry yelled, 'Protege/' Harry felt something streak across his face like a blunt knife; the force of it knocked him sideways and he fell over Neville's jerking legs, but the Shield Charm had stopped the worst of the spell.†  (source)
  • Dr. Barnard was a key player in this inner council and was said to be a protégé of the president.†  (source)
  • But when the Boss started to court other possible proteges, strong-bodied young agents who would serve a social function more than a Bureau function, Clyde knew it was time to submit to Edgar's need for a steadfast and unquestioning friend, a mate of soul and word and unvarying routine.†  (source)
  • He demanded a great deal from protégés and colleagues, and he always forgave them when they didn't measure up.†  (source)
  • "Did you ever come across a protege of his—one Hyde?" he asked.†  (source)
  • Reverend Verringer has indeed just come into the room, and is smiling at Simon with annoying benevolence, as if Simon is his protégé.†  (source)
  • The network of Clara and Jaime's proteges expanded, to the point where they lost count of how many people they were caring for; they were surprised whenever somebody appeared at the door to thank them for a favor they could not recall.†  (source)
  • Among her protégés was the cartographer De Blasiis (whose Maps of the New World was dedicated to the Marquesa de Montemayor amid the roars of the courtiers at Lima who read that she was the "admiration of her city and a rising sun in the West"); another was the scientist Azuarius whose treatise on the laws of hydraulics was suppressed by the Inquisition as being too exciting.†  (source)
  • Why, your protege, M. Andrea Cavalcanti!†  (source)
  • He was our driver from the airport, a protégé of mine and the son of a classmate I roomed with at the university.†  (source)
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