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  • We quietly sat on the bus, eyeing the apprentice (the conductor) who collected the fare before every stop.†   (source)
  • A great apprentice.†   (source)
  • But this story really is about Owen Meany, about how I have apprenticed myself to his voice.†   (source)
  • He studied crystallography in Munich, apprenticed as a polisher in Antwerp, has even been—one glorious afternoon—to Charterhouse Street in London, to an unmarked diamond house, where he was asked to turn out his pockets and ushered up three staircases and through three locked doors and seated at a table where a man with a mustache waxed to knifepoints let him examine a ninety-two-carat raw diamond from South Africa.†   (source)
  • He hoped that it would be someone as capable as his previous apprentice.†   (source)
  • But before Liberation my father used to be an apprentice.†   (source)
  • It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus.†   (source)
  • They'd have no apprentices, they'd have no successors.†   (source)
  • The other fishermen have apprentices.†   (source)
  • "What sort of flying motorcars do you have?" asked a pubescent boy named Horace, who wore a dark suit that made him look like an apprentice undertaker.†   (source)
  • And, finally, when I was ready, after I had apprenticed with professional writers over several years, partnering with the right agent.†   (source)
  • That might come later, his advisers have told him; for now, it was important to apprentice with the big names.†   (source)
  • Before long, he and Regina hired another immigrant just off the boat to help with the children so Regina could sew full-time, and then another to serve as an apprentice.†   (source)
  • He was a singer, before …. well, not truly, but almost, an apprentice singer.†   (source)
  • I can be an apprentice.†   (source)
  • During the season, this suite quarters the cook and his wife, or the cook and his apprentice.†   (source)
  • While they trained me, I became friends with another apprentice ….†   (source)
  • Later my sons set upon it like apprentice palm readers, trying to divine the fate of their world from the lengths and curves of its rivers.†   (source)
  • Like the other sons, he was an apprentice in his father's coffin-making business.†   (source)
  • It would be a thankless job, traveling in a role which combined the worst aspects of apprentice, escort, and spy without even the satisfaction of seeing a new world; Hoyt was under orders to see Father Dur down to the Hyperion spaceport and then reboard the same spinship for its return voyage to the Worldweb.†   (source)
  • All were involved with some version of The Taming of the Shrew, by that former glover's apprentice from Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • I actually had to take on an apprentice last week.†   (source)
  • And there in the center of the room was my bench, and next to mine Hans the apprentice's, and against the wall old Christoffels'.†   (source)
  • And that youngster is just the right age to be apprenticed to us.†   (source)
  • " 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Zia said.†   (source)
  • I still took apprentices in those days, and so many of them went on to make me proud.†   (source)
  • I had read an online description of the film, but it didn't mention that Mr. Magorium had decided it was time to die and hand over the shop to an apprentice.†   (source)
  • Your making this lamp is an attempt to show that you are better than the ordinary apprentice, is it not?†   (source)
  • The truth is that she was a fearless apprentice but lacked all talent for guided fornication.†   (source)
  • It was the apprentice medic from the hospital.†   (source)
  • Then I thought I might put off college for a year and apprentice myself to a pottery maker.†   (source)
  • I might apprentice myself to a merchant in New Haven or New York, or even London, to learn the art of trade.†   (source)
  • Blacksmiths shout orders as apprentices jostle to follow them.†   (source)
  • As I understand it, at first Dona Charito was insulted at the de la Torre request: she was an artiste-, she took on apprentices, not children.†   (source)
  • They weren't related to each other, but they were both apprentices of the magus.†   (source)
  • One kid who had not picked up on it was a teenaged apprentice jockey named Farrell Jones, who joined the others at the barn as Seabiscuit was led up.†   (source)
  • After high school Larry became an electrician's apprentice, and a year later he began dating Janice Smith, a high school senior who had grown up only a few blocks away but with a very different family situation.†   (source)
  • Six months younger than Ira, Jack Bradley was a recent high-school graduate and apprenticing his way to a Wisconsin funeral director's license.†   (source)
  • Well then, if your apprentices might help me unwrap the Geographica, we can get down to business.†   (source)
  • But Lestat and his apprentice, if they survived the fire (and I was convinced that they had) did not find their way to the ship.†   (source)
  • Later my aunt sent my elder brother to apprentice in Shangjiangxu.†   (source)
  • I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship.†   (source)
  • Would you like to be my apprentice?†   (source)
  • A young apprentice living in his house had been one of those killed in the Boston Massacre.†   (source)
  • Hardly an apprentice any longer.†   (source)
  • Celia suggests to the boy that he put down his pen for six months and work as an apprentice with the Escambray Theater, which educates peasants in the countryside.†   (source)
  • Afterwards I apprenticed for awhile, learning textile design, fabric, wallpaper, and such.†   (source)
  • As Apprentices, you will not yet take Devices, but during the school year you may have occasion to visit.†   (source)
  • True, the Spanish had to produce paperwork showing the emancipados had been apprenticed, and after the terms of the indenturement were met, give proof of the individual being freed.†   (source)
  • Right now, I'm apprenticing at another winery.†   (source)
  • Next year I'll be an apprentice but now I'm a helper.†   (source)
  • He needed a student, an apprentice.†   (source)
  • Never again would he be taunted by the other apprentices, boys much younger than he who climbed through the ranks in the guild step by tedious step.†   (source)
  • Bet the leading apprentice jockey to place.†   (source)
  • "Al's going east to Hatrack River to be an apprentice blacksmith," said Pa.†   (source)
  • He was not an apprentice.†   (source)
  • She was a quick apprentice.†   (source)
  • She apprentices with a carpenter.
  • When Dee was my apprentice in Paris, he found out about the Codex.†   (source)
  • The youngest girl fell ill after an apprentice died.†   (source)
  • I won't apprentice myself to you so you can learn the words Brom taught me!†   (source)
  • A fisherman's apprentice, a war orphan, and probably my only real friend.†   (source)
  • "You," he says to the conscientious new apprentice at the end of the counter.†   (source)
  • "The boy is my apprentice," the master said.†   (source)
  • As the bus proceeded, the apprentice came around to collect the fare.†   (source)
  • At 7:45 Hans, the apprentice, arrived and at 8:00 Toos, our saleslady-bookkeeper.†   (source)
  • Father would be giving last-minute instructions to the apprentice.†   (source)
  • At least he's apprenticed and won't face the war.†   (source)
  • There really was a Peale family, though they did not have an apprentice named Nathaniel Benson.†   (source)
  • If you are interested in carpentry, I will be glad to have you as my apprentice.†   (source)
  • John Dee was a mature man when I accepted him as my apprentice.†   (source)
  • "Who paid the boy's apprentice fee?" he asked lightly.†   (source)
  • Dr. van Veen, for whom the apprentice had gone running, could do no more than we.†   (source)
  • That boy is apprenticed here, isn't he?" she asked.†   (source)
  • Poda podas went by, their apprentices shouting the names of their destinations to attract customers.†   (source)
  • Gisa was there today, aiding the seamstress she is apprenticed to.†   (source)
  • That the armorer's sullen apprentice was the king's son, Ned had no doubt.†   (source)
  • The day you take on an apprentice without a fee will he the day the Wall comes down.†   (source)
  • Halder had been born in a quarry and apprenticed as a stonemason.†   (source)
  • "Last year an apprentice geisha caught it by accident on a nail," Tatsumi told me.†   (source)
  • Until the age of sixteen, an apprentice geisha bills one-half ohana per hour.†   (source)
  • Mameha was referring to an award for the apprentice who'd earned the most during the previous month.†   (source)
  • "Poor Sayuri is only an apprentice," said Mameha.†   (source)
  • It's the apprentice the Doctor used to be so fond of.†   (source)
  • Pumpkin was a full-fledged apprentice now; she'd been a novice six months earlier.†   (source)
  • But I believe the apprentice geisha of Gion is perhaps the most brilliantly colored primate of all!†   (source)
  • An apprentice, on the other hand, can't possibly get away with such behavior.†   (source)
  • When I entered the room, I saw that another geisha had joined the party, along with an apprentice.†   (source)
  • Hatsumomo and Pumpkin will both pay dearly for this apprentice's award.†   (source)
  • The training of an apprentice geisha is an arduous path.†   (source)
  • Do I recall seeing it on you, back during your days as an apprentice?†   (source)
  • She had great difficulty walking; the regalia of an apprentice geisha is so cumbersome.†   (source)
  • Your little friend Pumpkin has just won the apprentice's award.†   (source)
  • While I was an apprentice, it was 3 yen, which was about the cost of two bottles of liquor, perhaps.†   (source)
  • And she began it, 'There's a young apprentice named Sayuri, who lives in my okiya ….'†   (source)
  • I'm sure all apprentices feel changed by the experience of mizuage in much the same way I did.†   (source)
  • He did not take shape within the inscribed circle, but had concealed himself within my apprentice.†   (source)
  • Some honest apprentice boy, a rich old man, a seafarer, whatever you desire.†   (source)
  • I was his apprentice for …. for an unfortunate number of years.†   (source)
  • Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—†   (source)
  • His own army numbered fewer than thirty thousand including the apprentices.†   (source)
  • The magus has disappeared, and his apprentice says that he conspired with us.†   (source)
  • Hammer's apprentice was a wiry red-haired youth called Nail.†   (source)
  • Before you made my brother your apprentice.†   (source)
  • But I was never apprenticed to a blacksmith or a bladesmith.†   (source)
  • We will talk later, my young apprentice.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I might take him on as an apprentice in a year or two, once he's learned to cipher."†   (source)
  • The apprentice finally managed to steady himself.†   (source)
  • Now and then Orfeo would lean over to check his transient apprentice.†   (source)
  • When Sophos was done, the magus turned to his senior apprentice.†   (source)
  • "You were an apprentice Caretaker?" said Bert.†   (source)
  • Gendry shared a mattress with two other apprentice smiths.†   (source)
  • She's been Nigel Bristow's charge since he was an Apprentice, some thirty years ago.†   (source)
  • Any Second Year apprentice would have been tempted to heat the kettle with a flick of their fingers.†   (source)
  • The apprentice was defiant: The apprentice was proud.†   (source)
  • McDaniels continues to demonstrate capabilities well beyond the normal Apprentice spectrum.†   (source)
  • A student came in answer to his knock, a Third Year apprentice, judging from her sky-blue robes.†   (source)
  • "I'm not—we're not—sorry, Jack—his assistants—apprentices," he sputtered.†   (source)
  • If he thought he'd pounded good nature back into his apprentice, he was wrong.†   (source)
  • I offered him the apprentice spot there and then, thinking he'd run, that I'd never see him again."†   (source)
  • As my apprentice, you have to apply yourself, Thomas Hunter.†   (source)
  • They say I have to read before I become an apprentice, and they say they'll teach me.†   (source)
  • "Tell me you've enrolled me as an apprentice bookkeeper.†   (source)
  • His host was raw—apprentice boys, miners, fieldhands, fisherfolk, the sweepings of Lannisport.†   (source)
  • "You shouldn't let the king choose your apprentices.†   (source)
  • Other than my apprentice, I work alone, as my forefathers did.†   (source)
  • By that time my brother was old enough to be apprenticed, and I became a housemaid.†   (source)
  • She trailed off as an apprentice hurried over and handed a transcription to the Director.†   (source)
  • It is exceedingly rare for an Apprentice to win one of these awards.†   (source)
  • I was an orphan boy apprenticed to a traveling folly.†   (source)
  • The mesmerized apprentice wasn't even aware of the growing intensity of the fire.†   (source)
  • One didn't usually find a future duke as an apprentice of anyone.†   (source)
  • Even the lowliest apprentice could recite basic facts about his life.†   (source)
  • Most Apprentices can't outrun Olympic sprinters.†   (source)
  • So the magus hadn't told his apprentices where we were going.†   (source)
  • If the Empire learns I took your brother as my apprentice, they'll kill him.†   (source)
  • Not the Tyrant of Icewind Dale, but the bumbling apprentice who had murdered his teacher.†   (source)
  • In the guise of a wizard's apprentice from Luskan!†   (source)
  • So this is why Darin agreed to be his apprentice.†   (source)
  • I think he'd forgotten that I was there listening to him lecture his apprentices.†   (source)
  • Welcome to Humanities for First Year Apprentices.†   (source)
  • Measured against your own people, he is barely an apprentice.†   (source)
  • Apprentices use the one down in Room 101.†   (source)
  • At my parents for dying and my brother for apprenticing himself to a Martial.†   (source)
  • The magus and his apprentices were smiling at their food.†   (source)
  • The young apprentice felt himself being drawn into the hypnotic dance of the brazier's fire.†   (source)
  • I wait outside her door, throwing black looks at the apprentices trying to get me to leave.†   (source)
  • Though the gods alone know why, ever did Morkai have a soft spot for his wretched little apprentice!†   (source)
  • The wizard's stupid apprentice saved us much trouble.†   (source)
  • In very short time an apprentice came running with a thin scroll.†   (source)
  • As usual, the old foreman, Piotr Khudoleiev, was walloping his young apprentice Yusupka.†   (source)
  • They had a dressmaking establishment, I was an apprentice in the workshop.†   (source)
  • Khudoleiev had not always been a tormentor of apprentices and a brawling drunkard.†   (source)
  • When I was apprenticed to my uncle I used to play around with charcoal when he wasn't looking.†   (source)
  • Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith.†   (source)
  • I have an apprentice.†   (source)
  • She glanced over her shoulder, wondering why there wasn't a nurse or a medical apprentice covering for her parents.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had to leave school after his father's death, and he went to work as an apprentice in the Postal Agency, where he was in charge of opening sacks, sorting the letters, and notifying the public that mail had arrived by flying the flag of its country of origin over the office door.†   (source)
  • When it rained, he let me work with the sawyers, and by the end of the summer he apprenticed me to the channel-bar drillers.†   (source)
  • He went down to the Owenses' tomb to complain to his parents, but Mrs. Owens would not hear a word said against Miss Lupescu, on, as far as Bod was concerned, the unfair grounds that Silas had chosen her, while Mr. Owens simply shrugged and started telling Bod about his days as a young apprentice cabinetmaker, and how much he would have loved to have learned about all the useful things that Bod was learning, which was, as far as Bod was concerned, even worse.†   (source)
  • Langdon had already explained to her about the Templars' powerful historic ties to the modern Masonic secret societies, whose primary degrees—Apprentice Freemason, Fellowcraft Freemason, and Master Mason—harked back to early Templar days.†   (source)
  • The apprentice (Natalie Portman) tells the toymaker (Dustin Hoffman) that he can't die; he has to live.†   (source)
  • I listened to Old Widow Lau's complaints with one ear as I watched people pass us on the streets: Young men who appeared to be students or apprentices.†   (source)
  • Ybur friend and apprentice housebreaker, Denna, pstscrpt—Please rest assured that I did not notice the disgraceful condition of your bed linens, and did not judge your character thereby.†   (source)
  • An apprentice.†   (source)
  • In exchange for the child apprentice, he would give the fathers, or else the widowed mothers, a good price, or what he said was a good price; and it was a decent-enough price, considering what people were used to.†   (source)
  • She was apprenticed to the Fashion Editor, which set her apart from the more literary ones among us like Doreen and Betsy and I myself, who all wrote columns, even if some of them were only about health and beauty.†   (source)
  • By July, he was working in the quarries—he was often the signalman, but his father apprenticed him to the other quarrymen: the channel bar drillers, the derrickman, the dynamiters.†   (source)
  • Skarpi's apprentice."†   (source)
  • The other apprentices had envied Clarke's assignment, and had complained of nepotism when they discovered that Dr. Lahiri was one of her father's closest friends.†   (source)
  • …the town Gazette and editor of the literary magazine and secretary of Honor Board, which deals with academic and social offenses and punishments-a popular office-and I had a well-known woman poet and professor on the faculty championing me for graduate school at the biggest universities in the east, and promises of full scholarships all the way, and now I was apprenticed to the best editor on an intellectual fashion magazine, and what did I do but balk and balk like a dull cart horse?†   (source)
  • "Charles Abernethy—presumptive heir to the Earl of Westmorland, financier's apprentice, and bowman of the losing Cambridge crew at Henley in 1920."†   (source)
  • …five hours being sent all over the town one slushy January morning, being laughed at in each establishment he visited and then sent on to the next; when he realized he had been made a fool of, he had taken an angry case of apoplexy, which carried him off within the week, and he died glaring furiously at the other apprentices and even at Mr. Horrobin, the master painter, who had undergone so much worse back when he was a 'prentice that he could scarcely see what all the fuss was about.†   (source)
  • For the next stage of my education in the Fishery, I was apprenticed to Manet, the old, wild-haired student I'd met during my first days at the University.†   (source)
  • Although Perenelle had had some reservations, Nicholas had been delighted with the opportunity to take on the English magician as a new apprentice.†   (source)
  • We compromised: I apprenticed myself to the diamond wheel until August; and that August—when the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf—Owen set me to work as a signalman in the quarries.†   (source)
  • Then with the tip of his pencil he reviewed each item in the manner of a banker double-checking the sums of his apprentice.†   (source)
  • In the second, she was a nineteenth-century heiress who turns her back on her legacy to wed a blacksmith's apprentice.†   (source)
  • So when this tall good-looking young man appeared with apprentice papers from a good firm in Berlin, Father hired him without hesitation.†   (source)
  • Andrew Brown's print shop smelled of ink and grease and the sweat of muscular apprentices carrying trays of lead type from the composing table to the printing press.†   (source)
  • I'm not an apprentice anymore."†   (source)
  • Then the bus stopped and the apprentice stood at the doorway, to make sure that no one got out without paying.†   (source)
  • When he'd first apprenticed himself to Nicholas Flamel, the Alchemyst, he'd made the mistake of underestimating her.†   (source)
  • In addition, it seemed decidedly unconcerned with where it had been or where it was going—exhibiting somehow simultaneously the confidence of the master and the inexperience of the apprentice.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, it came first to Jop, the seventeen-year-old apprentice who had sought a safe home at the Beje.†   (source)
  • When the bus was about to reach our destination, the apprentice asked those getting off to raise their hands.†   (source)
  • I'm not apprenticed, I don't have a job, so I'm going to be sent to the war like all the other idle ones.†   (source)
  • The call for prayer from the central mosque echoed throughout the city, polo podas crowded the streets, their apprentices hanging on the open passenger doors and calling out the names of their destinations: "Lumley, Lumley" or "Congo Town …."†   (source)
  • There were only two employees in the watch shop in 1898, the clock man and Father's young apprentice-errand boy.†   (source)
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