prentice

IPA: prˈɛntɪs

Examples of "prentice" in Sentences

"Not 'again,' Mr. Levy; and my 'prentice' hand, if you don't mind."
Later, as soon as I was relieved, I hurried down to the 'prentice's berth.
Before to-day I had thought the 'prentice's life the merriest life in the world.
The horse splashed the 'prentice's eyes and mouth full of mud as the stranger galloped away.
a going to 'prentice' you: and to set you up in life, and make a man of you: although the expense to the parish is three pound ten!
If you put the "'prentice" in it, show nothing more than his paper cap, because he will be an important character in the story, and you will need to know more about him as he is minutely described.
On October 10 the 'prentice' Henham writes: 'My master Betson is right well amended, blessed be Jesus, and he is past all doubts of sickness and he takes the sustenance right well, and as for physicians, there come none unto him, for he hath no need of them.' [
Keeping these latter words to himself, and returning his daughter's nod, he was passing into the workshop, with the smile she had awakened still beaming on his face, when he just caught sight of his 'prentice's brown paper cap ducking down to avoid observation, and shrinking from the window back to its former place, which the wearer no sooner reached than he began to hammer lustily.