pupilage
Example Sentences
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During his pupilage he secured his first engagement as an actor at a little theatre on the Boulevard du Crime, called the Variétés Amusantes—a theatre long since dead.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
Most of us were shy to speak out in that presence, feeling ourselves in a state of pupilage.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
We, too, brought science to our calling; rude, perhaps, and not readily defined save by a long, hard pupilage.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
Dino is in a state of pupilage," he said, slightly, finding that Brian seemed to expect an answer; "the rules which bind him are very strict.
From Under False Pretences A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
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
