pupilage
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Then you have only another year of pupilage to serve, eh, Escombe?”
From Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Victor Prout
A pretty notion the Signorina must form of your enslaved state of pupilage, when she hears you ask that question.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Richard continued in this state of pupilage in some of the castles belonging to the family from the time that his brother began to reign until he was about fourteen years of age.
From Richard III Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
Public credulity believed the scandal, and the public mind became troubled because the pupilage of the future sovereign was under the guidance of the shallow earl.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
The transition of the son from the pupilage of childhood and youth to the independence of manhood is often trying to the filial relation.
From Hooking Watermelons 1898 by Edward Bellamy
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