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apprentice
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  • While her popular older sister might drop in on as many as twenty parties during an evening, an apprentice probably attends no more than five.  (source)
    apprentice = someone who works for an expert to learn a trade
  • Fathers would beg us to take their sons as apprentices, and pay us handsomely, especially in food-supplies, which we never bothered to grow or find for ourselves.  (source)
    apprentices = people who work for experts to learn a trade
  • "Apprentice highwaymen?" Captain Nips scoffed.  (source)
    Apprentice = someone who works for an expert to learn a trade
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  • "You," he says to the conscientious new apprentice at the end of the counter.†  (source)
  • As I understand it, at first Dona Charito was insulted at the de la Torre request: she was an artiste-, she took on apprentices, not children.†  (source)
  • But this story really is about Owen Meany, about how I have apprenticed myself to his voice.†  (source)
  • Six months younger than Ira, Jack Bradley was a recent high-school graduate and apprenticing his way to a Wisconsin funeral director's license.†  (source)
  • Had the apprentice been reading the complete works of Goethe or any other such luminary, that was what would have sat in front of them.†  (source)
  • In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.†  (source)
  • He studied crystallography in Munich, apprenticed as a polisher in Antwerp, has even been—one glorious afternoon—to Charterhouse Street in London, to an unmarked diamond house, where he was asked to turn out his pockets and ushered up three staircases and through three locked doors and seated at a table where a man with a mustache waxed to knifepoints let him examine a ninety-two-carat raw diamond from South Africa.†  (source)
  • Right now, I'm apprenticing at another winery.†  (source)
  • A Padawan is a Jedi apprentice.†  (source)
  • My fellow-apprentices very soon began to feel it degrading to them to work with me.†  (source)
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