pupilage

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Is it that the dignity of genius forbids it, or that pupilage is half a disgrace?

From How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction by Anonymous

Mr. Boutwell's proposition to remand a State to territorial pupilage would be but the legal enactment and the logical sequence of what has had the enthusiastic approval of a large number of citizens.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

In spite of the tyrannic cares of their jealous guides, mankind seem desirous to burst from the pupilage, wherein so many causes combine to retain them.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

We, too, brought science to our calling; rude, perhaps, and not readily defined save by a long, hard pupilage.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

The rough schooling of French hostility was necessary for the development of those qualities among the British colonists which enabled them finally to break the bonds of pupilage and stand alone.

From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George