pupilage
Example Sentences
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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
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
And woe to the sophist who, with arguments drawn from the unconfirmed constitution of his childhood, would strive to render his imperfect, because immature, state of pupilage a permanent one!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
When military aviation had outgrown its early pupilage to the Royal Engineers it came under the immediate control of the War Office.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
A physician, with whom I was intimately acquainted, during the greater part of his medical pupilage, which included the latter part of his tobacco experience, has given the following account of his own case.
From An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health by R. D. (Reuben Dimond) Mussey
