prenticeship

In my second ap - prenticeship I worked, however, in Sepphoris, the capital of Galilee, an hour on foot from Nazareth.

The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997

Lal de daudle, etc. My prenticeship I past where my leader breath'd his last,

Son of Mars 1996

Even so, miserable as his prenticeship was, he might have looked back on Hatrack River with some fondness.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

The Hatrack River he knew was the village of his prenticeship, with a town square and a church with a preacher and Whitley Physicker to tend the sick and even a post office and enough folks with enough children that they got them up a subscription and hired them a schoolteacher.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

She had run off the first time just before Alvin got to Hatrack to start his prenticeship with Makepeace Smith, and in the more than eight years since then, she had only spent that single year in Hatrack -- less than a year, really -- when she was in disguise.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

And it would probably mean the arrival of more humans, perhaps even before her 'prenticeship was up.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The local newsgroups at Sjandra Kei had thought Ravna radically ambitious to take a 'prenticeship twenty thousand light-years away.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

Ravna had been away from Sjandra Kei for two years, and had another year of her 'prenticeship to go.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

That had been a frightening thing in the first days of her 'prenticeship.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The 'prenticeship is everything it's claimed to be.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992