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As I walked down of a morning to my work, I often stopped as I crossed Fifth street to admire the arch of lindens that barred the view to the westward, or to gaze at the inscription on the 'Prentices' Library, still plain to see, telling that the building was erected in the eighth year of the Empire.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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The holy battles better to endure. — _Four Prentices of London_, VI.,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Breakfasted with Slewman at Prentices, mounted for
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Her old house and most of the neighbouring houses had been cut up into flats and only one old lady in the road remembered the Prentices.
The Breaking Wave Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1955
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The Prentices apparently had no relations living in Oxford.
The Breaking Wave Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1955
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_Prentices_; _The Golden Age_; _The Iron Age, first and second part_;
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Heads of Families not to suffer said Negro to come into their Houses to teach their Prentices or Servants to play, nor on any other Accounts.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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At the end of August Alice returned from Newport for a couple of days, having some shopping to do before she joined the Prentices at their camp in the Adirondacks.
The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923
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He found that Alice had departed for her visit to the Prentices ', and that Oliver was in Newport, also.
The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923
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Enter, on one side, HORNER, and his Neighbours drinking to him so much that he is drunk; and he enters bearing his staff with a sand-bag fastened to it; a drum before him: on the other side, PETER, with a drum and a sand-bag; and Prentices drinking to him.
Act II. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth 1914
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