"Not 'again,' Mr. Levy; and my 'prentice' hand, if you don't mind.". From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Justice Raffles] Reference
Later, as soon as I was relieved, I hurried down to the 'prentice's berth. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 2] Reference
Before to-day I had thought the 'prentice's life the merriest life in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference
The horse splashed the 'prentice's eyes and mouth full of mud as the stranger galloped away. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Wrath] Reference
A going to 'prentice' you: and to set you up in life, and make a man of you: although the expense to the parish is three pound ten!. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
Just give an eye to yonder band of 'prentice lads. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
"Thof he be my father I an't bound prentice to en.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference
A man in valor to exceed this gallant prentice mine. From Wordnik.com. [Wealthy London Prentice] Reference
From thence brought up in London a prentice for to be. From Wordnik.com. [Wealthy London Prentice] Reference
It is of a brisk young sailor and he a prentice bound. From Wordnik.com. [Jolly Young Sailor Boy] Reference
It's of a wealthy London prentice my purpose is to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Wealthy London Prentice] Reference
This wealthy London prentice was from his prison brought. From Wordnik.com. [Wealthy London Prentice] Reference
Are you going to 'prentice that boy of yours to me or not?. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
And Joe himself was not quite the 'prentice lad I had known. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
I tried my 'prentice hand in this work on Geri, the beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
'Tis an old story: the virtuous prentice -- and the unvirtuous. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
For a while, this brought me back to my prentice days in Ionia. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Try your 'prentice hand on contributions to the smaller publications. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
The series was illustrated with the early and prentice work of the Bewick. From Wordnik.com. [Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature] Reference
But Bluebell was trying her 'prentice hand with a veteran in such warfare. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
"There's always something one has to take from a prentice and do oneself.". From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
And look at the black John Daniel, who was a prentice with him at Carmarthen. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
The fact is, for all his experience of rascality, Jassa was a 'prentice hand. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
After all, I fancy, he will turn out to be a run-away prentice from London. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
Feisal was eager to hear the details of Akaba, and laughed at our prentice wars. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
"But it takes a long time for a 'prentice to work up," said Sam, watching him eagerly. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
"We are already overstocked with 'prentice fools," he retorted, looking over the throng. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
I am, for I never expected to rise to this w'en I was a milliner's 'prentice in London. '. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
"More than you'll ever know about wood, and carving, and craftsmanship, you prentice baron!". From Wordnik.com. [Monk's Hood]
He plays yet, like a young prentice the first day, and is not come to his task of melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Still and on, our affection and its working on my prentice mind is nothing to dwell on publicly. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Has not many a London 'prentice lad found that magic wand in honest hard work and strict integrity?. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Though he was there 'prentice to a hard calling, Gilian's life was more the gentle's than the shepherd's. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
His son, being an ungracious boy, and 'prentice to one Robert Scotchford, clothier, dwelling in that parish of. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
After most careful investigation he answers the question, "The neophytes try their prentice hands upon their fellow barbers.". From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Jonson makes Iniquity declare that the 'prentice boys rob their masters and "spend it in pies at the Dagger and the Woolsack.". From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
As we were leaving the court, a tipstaff came up to Joe Punchard, and formally arrested him as a runaway 'prentice; at the instance. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
But in that predicament I heard Joe Punchard whistling, through the open door of the shop where he did 'prentice work for old Matthew. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
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