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one who works for an expert to learn a trade; or (as a verb) performance of that kind of work
- Not that Tom was moulded on the spoony type of the Industrious Apprentice; he had a very strong appetite for pleasure,—would have liked to be a Tamer of horses and to make a distinguished figure in all neighboring eyes, dispensing treats and benefits to others with well-judged liberality, and being pronounced one of the finest young fellows of those parts; nay, he determined to achieve these things sooner or later; but his practical shrewdness told him that the means no such...5.2 — Book 5 Chapter 2 — Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb (7% in)
- Well, you might be apprenticed to some business,—a chemist's and druggist's perhaps; your Latin might come in a bit there——"3.5 — Book 3 Chapter 5 — Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster (60% in)
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