pupilage
Example Sentences
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Richard continued in this state of pupilage in some of the castles belonging to the family from the time that his brother began to reign until he was about fourteen years of age.
From Richard III Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
The rough schooling of French hostility was necessary for the development of those qualities among the British colonists which enabled them finally to break the bonds of pupilage and stand alone.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Warburton
The doctors of Ancient Rome took no regular course of study, nor were any standards specified, but as a rule knowledge was acquired by pupilage to a practising physician, for which a honorarium was paid.
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott
She remembered Clarence Copperhead as a full-grown man, beyond, it seemed to her, the age at which pupilage was possible.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Mr. Boutwell's proposition to remand a State to territorial pupilage would be but the legal enactment and the logical sequence of what has had the enthusiastic approval of a large number of citizens.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
