prentice's

Maybe it was because he knew it was better for business, and Makepeace was humble enough to give way before his prentice's skill -- but Alvin never quite believed that.

Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS (ten in number) led in, in a string, by CUPID, who is attired in a flat cap, and a prentice's coat, with wings at his shoulders.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Later, as soon as I was relieved, I hurried down to the 'prentice's berth.

The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 2 1909

_Enter his Sons and Daughters, (ten in number,) led in, in a string, by Cupid, who is attired in a flat cap, and a prentice's coat, with wings at his shoulders.

In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) 1902

Keeping these latter words to himself, and returning his daughter's nod, he was passing into the workshop, with the smile she had awakened still beaming on his face, when he just caught sight of his 'prentice's brown paper cap ducking down to avoid observation, and shrinking from the window back to its former place, which the wearer no sooner reached than he began to hammer lustily.

Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

And here he was challenging me, who stood before him in a prentice's hodden grey!

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

{19} Now, when I was to rise, I looked that they should bring me my old prentice's gabardine and hose, but on the morning of that day

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

Before to-day I had thought the 'prentice's life the merriest life in the world.

Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess Talbot Baines Reed 1872

The horse splashed the 'prentice's eyes and mouth full of mud as the stranger galloped away.

The Day of Wrath M��r J��kai 1864

And he listened when Fulford and Will Marden, a young English man - at-arms with whom he had made friends, concerted how he should meet them at an inn -- the sign of the Seven Stars -- in Gravelines, and there exchange his prentice's garb for the buff coat and corslet of

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862