prentice

• I was still 'prentice, and wanted about three months to sarve my time, when, of course, I should no longer be protected from sarving the king, when the ship I was in sailed up the Baltic with a cargo of bullocks. —  Jacob Faithful
• "Be that what you call fitting for your daughter and your prentice, a beggar lad from the heath? —  The Armourer's Prentices
• In equity, we acknowledge that Lodovico's record on the ledger of the Ghirlandajo brothers proves their willingness to take him as a prentice, and their payment to him of two florins in advance; but the same record does not disprove Condivi's statement, derived from his old master's reminiscences, to the effect that Domenico Ghirlandajo was in no way greatly serviceable to him as an instructor. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
• I had been among horses before I was bound 'prentice, and he hired me as his groom But how came you to leave him He is a very passionate gentleman. —  Anna St. Ives
• "He might ha' gone for your young fellow--the 'prentice, there--what's his name Might? —  Silas Marner

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