prentice
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Afterwards he made me his prentice, and so a mariner I have been from that day to this.
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Spare yourself many disappointments by putting your literary efforts before a competent critic, and let him point out the crudities, the digressions, and those weaknesses which betray the 'prentice hand.
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The Bar chose its special facings, so did the 'prentices, so did the adherents of each opulent grandee.
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Burns tells us that Nature tried her ’prentice hand on man ‘And then she made the lassies, oh!’
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He was returning, one summer evening—it was June 13—from the play at the Fortune Theatre, when he was recognised by a company of London prentices.
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