prenticed

Was he going to be 'prenticed to someone after all?

Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000

"I take it you're 'prenticed there?" she asked, dismounting with a creak of leather and a jingle of harness.

Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

His son Egypt got to be four years old and Denmark prenticed him to a Black harness maker.

Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

He'd heard the rumors flying hither and yon about the golden plow and how it was stolen from a blacksmith that Alvin prenticed with, but he never thought Makepeace would have the face to take it to court, where he'd be proved a liar for sure.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

He may have prenticed as a blacksmith all those years in Hatrack River, but here in Vigor Church he was a baker of brains.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

I was 'prenticed was down on Broad Street, jus' about whar de Bernstein

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Sam wuz free-bawn, but his mammy and daddy died, an 'de w'ite folks' prenticed him ter my marster fer ter work fer 'im' tel he wuz growed up.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

"You don't get 'prenticed for nothing," was the faithless rejoinder.

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

"I wasn't never 'prenticed to no trade, no more'n what you'll be."

Harding's Luck Edith 1909

There was a new dean just come in -- Dean Burscough it was -- and my father had been 'prenticed to a good firm of joiners in the city, and knew what good work was when he saw it.

A Thin Ghost and Others 1899