pupildom

She was walking with two of the nuns and three or four of the elder residents at the convent, for many of these were past the age of pupildom; and were there simply as a safe place of refuge during troublous times.

In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce 1867

“Yes — and there would be this against you — that it is so difficult for a man to go back to the verdure and malleability of pupildom, who has once escaped from the necessary humility of its conditions.

Phineas Finn 2004

"Yes; — and there would be this against you — that it is so difficult for a man to go back to the verdure and malleability of pupildom, who has once escaped from the necessary humility of its conditions.

Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869

"Yes -- and there would be this against you -- that it is so difficult for a man to go back to the verdure and malleability of pupildom, who has once escaped from the necessary humility of its conditions.

Phineas Finn 1867

"Yes; -- and there would be this against you -- that it is so difficult for a man to go back to the verdure and malleability of pupildom, who has once escaped from the necessary humility of its conditions.

Phineas Finn The Irish Member Anthony Trollope 1848