pupilage
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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
To it must be added, as a supplement, that he must be a 'made' man—made in a long hard pupilage in a stern school that appraises strictly on results.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
His pupilage with Sir Joshua prevented his falling into the washed leather and warm drab errors of tone that then distinguished the English school of historical painting.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
Strong-willed or not, he would have to leave things alone during his pupilage.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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
