pupilage
Example Sentences
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The child had outlived the years of pupilage; the interests of the old and the young required a separate household.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Warburton
Public credulity believed the scandal, and the public mind became troubled because the pupilage of the future sovereign was under the guidance of the shallow earl.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
The lieutenants who owed their rank to it became such after seven or eight years, or at, twenty-three or four; and this meant really passing out of pupilage into manhood.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Then you have only another year of pupilage to serve, eh, Escombe?”
From Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Victor Prout
He repudiated the notion that they needed any pupilage from the general Government in the management of public affairs.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess
