pupilage

Example Sentences

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In accounting for it, and finding out the determining experiences of the artist's pupilage, we shall account, also, for much that came after.

From Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work by Rhys, Ernest

Mirabeau's life was, as we have seen, a pupilage, as it is now to become a mastership, in revolution.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

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 Warburton, George

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 Cook, Dutton

Because my days of nominal pupilage are over.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion