pupilage

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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

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

An unpretentious tenement near Sloane Square was Byron's home during his pupilage with Dr. Glennie.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

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 Bone, David W. (David William)

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