As early as 1837 an attempt was made to establish a navalapprentice system.
The apprentice system brought to the navy a supply of apprentices, but the number would be totally inadequate in a naval war.
While this condition still exists to some extent, the growth of the apprentice system is bringing about a gradual change.
Congress has as yet taken no action upon these and numerous other recommendations which have been made for the improvement of the apprentice system, and they remain pertinent.
Upon the expiration of the enlistment of anapprentice he will, if recommended, receive an honorable discharge, and if he enlists again within three months, will be given pay for this period.
Contracts of apprenticeship to hold good though made while the apprentice is under age.
None to be received apprenticeexcept his father may spend 40s.
London for 7 years at the least, so as the term of such apprentice do not expire afore such apprentice shall be of the age of 24 years at the least.
Do you instruct this apprentice in the different branches of the trade?
It is agreed that from henceforth no artificer shall employapprentice working by the day, viz.
And you instruct your apprentice in the same line?
Item, that every such person permitted to be a master weaver which hath not served his full years of apprenticeship shall not keep above one loom going; and no apprentice to work with him but a journeyman or journeymen.
Christian entered the printing establishment of Henry Estienne as anapprentice at his twelfth year.
When the darling apprentice to the armorer is back again, I shall pay him the full arrears of hugs due him.
Ignorant of the secret information whispered by his uncle to the armorer, the apprentice followed the two into the tavern, asking himself with increasing wonderment how the Franc-Taupin could have become a friar.
Cornelia, Antonicq, Master Barbot, Captain Mirant and six resolute mariners who accompanied him but whose help was not needed, were soon joined at the bottom of the aqueduct by the apprentice and the Franc-Taupin.
And there is my apprentice Serpentin also--who is following the Franc-Taupin out of the hole.
Master Raimbaud and his apprentice resumed their route at a rapid pace.
The apprenticeand his master were at that moment ascending a steep hill, at a steady pace.
The latter is named Odelin; he is an apprentice in the establishment of Master Raimbaud, one of the most celebrated armorers of Paris.
There you are, from an armorer's apprentice transformed into a Capuchin's apprentice!
This bookish inclination determined my father to bind me apprentice to my brother James, a printer in Boston, and in a little time I became very proficient.
He read very widely but was without any particular ambition or practical bent, and had undertaken to apprentice himself to a shoemaker, when his head-master interfered.
For when Aaron Lazarus the Jew came there, seventy years before, he had been the tenth man in unbroken line that took up the business; and now Stephen Nados, his apprentice and successor, was the eleventh.
Articles now made with us in large manufacturing establishments at a price which would starve a master and his apprentice to compete with, are hammered out in these English shops on a single anvil.
From this school he was sent as an apprentice to a trading establishment in Edinburgh, and at the end of his term set up business for himself as a draper in Aberdeen.
He delved into his own apprentice autobiography, and rediscovered an era, a blissful era of whirling fists, blood, and booby traps.
The ghost appeared again, at much the same hour, on several nights; it was remarked, mostly when the apprentice who first saw it had the wheel.
On the first watch, the voyage before this, he had gone into the wheel-house for a word with the apprentice at the wheel.
It began I was born in the city of Sydney, And I was an apprentice bound, And many's the good old time I've had In that dear old Southern town.
The apprentice fell in with a dark lady--indeed "she came tripping right into his way.
To prevent this step, his father was impatient to have him bound apprentice to his brother, and at length persuaded him to consent to it.
He was to serve asapprentice till he was twenty-one years of age, and during the last year was to be allowed the wages of a journeyman.
Exactly one-half of the Factor's allowance was the share of the Chief Trader, and a half of the latter's portion was the scale for a Chief Clerk or Apprentice Clerk.
Among the many young apprentice officers who have been under my orders in the Hudson's Bay Company, none was so conspicuously unfortunate as Ralson.
Their several grades were as follows: Chief Factor, Chief Trader, Chief Clerk, Apprentice Clerk, Post Master.
Doubtless the fellow was some plumber's apprenticewho had made good use of an opportunity to study the lay of the land against a contemplated invasion of these holy precincts.
Or, if he had not been a plumber's apprentice did he yearn to once again assume the unharried peace of whatever legitimate calling had been his before he bent his steps upon the broad boulevard of sin?
The Navy signed on eligible students as apprentice seamen and paid their academic expenses.
He was put apprentice to a carpenter, and worked at that trade until he arrived at manhood.
Thus, while learning the linen-drapery business, a fellow apprentice who lodged in the same house, and was a Unitarian, led him into frequent discussions on religious subjects.
Probably to enable him to indulge his love of architectural construction, the boy besought his father to let him be a joiner; and he was accordingly put apprentice to a neighbouring village carpenter.
He was working as a tailor's apprentice near Bonchurch, in the Isle of Wight, when the news flew through the village that a squadron of men-of-war was sailing off the island.
A box of colours was purchased for him, and his father, desirous of turning his love of art to account, put him apprentice to a maker of tea-trays!
Bottgher was born at Schleiz, in the Voightland, in 1685, and at twelve years of age was placed apprenticewith an apothecary at Berlin.
The news spread abroad that the apothecary's apprentice had discovered the grand secret, and crowds collected about the shop to get a sight of the wonderful young "gold-cook.
Returning to England, he had himself bound apprentice to a sea captain, who "drubbed him with a rope's end" for the badness of his sight.
His father first thought of putting him apprentice to a grocer, and afterwards had almost made up his mind to bring him up to his own trade of a coal-fitter.
Joseph she put apprentice to a surgeon, and educated for the medical profession.
In London no apprenticeafter his term was to use his trade till he had been sworn to the franchise.
If an apprentice left his master before the seven years were over, the master might not take another till the time had expired unless he delivered the £5 to the keepers for the use of the craft.
A decree against using daggers or knives or making any affray was limited by the phrase, “provided always that it shall be lawful to any inhabitant to correct his servant or apprentice according to the law.
The State in order to protect the agricultural interest strictly forbade the poor countryman to leave husbandry for trade, or to apprentice his child to any craft.
At this abrupt demand, journeymen and apprentice hastened to the window.
With this cry the frightened people rushed out of the room, leaving the terrified young apprentice and the miller's wife alone together.
The apprentice drew near to the speaker, who occupied the place of honour in the armchair, and the upper part of whose face was hidden by a large green shade.
Mistress Blüthgen coloured with pleasure when she saw her foreman in his new dress, asked how he was in very friendly tones, and sent the apprentice to fetch some refreshments for him.
And Knud was bound apprentice to a shoemaker, for the big boy could not be allowed to run wild any longer; and moreover he was confirmed.
One morning the bottle was bought, for the tanner's apprentice was dispatched for a bottle of wine--"of the best.
The march in the dark, literally as well as metaphorically in the dark, had now been continued for three-quarters of an hour from the time when the crippled Apprentice had met with his accident.
This night our wit" the pert apprentice cries, "Lies at my feet: I hiss him, and he dies!
He was heir to a fortune of about two hundred thousand pounds, left him by an uncle in the West Indies; and his guardians, to qualify him for the management of it, had bound him apprentice to an attorney.
It was also a great surprise for Dame Sarah when Valentine chose for her from among the imprisoned Turks a good-humored fellow who had been a butcher's apprentice in his native place.
The first apprentice already worked on his own account.
Did the false apprentice in his dream see the true woman?
But as he ate, Cornelius examined the false apprentice with as much care and scrutiny as if he were weighing an old coin.
The architect had constructed the room given to the apprentice under the pointed roof of the tower in which the staircase wound.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru By Harry Collingwood Harry Escombe is a young apprentice in a civil engineer's office.
I was an apprentice at the time aboard a fine, full-rigged iron clipper ship called the Joan of Arc.
Thereupon Thomas de Kydemenstre said he was willing to have the apprentice back and provide for him, and the father agreed.
No man or woman may put their son or daughter to serve as an apprentice in a craft within any borough, but may send the child to school, unless he or she has land or rent to the value of 20s.
The entry of an apprentice into a craft shall not cost more than 2s.
No man may enter a craft of cloth-making until he has been an apprentice for seven years or has married a clothiers' wife and practicing the trade for years with her and her servants sorting the wools.
Judgment that the master take back the apprentice and feed and instruct him, or that he repay to the father, the money paid to the latter, and that he pay the father the 40d.
The defendant said that the apprentice lent his master's goods to others and promised to restore them or their value, but went away against his wish; and he demanded a jury.
A householder in a town may receive a child as an apprentice for 7 years, but merchants may only take as apprentices children of parents with 40s.
No master of a craft may require his apprentice to make an oath not to compete with him by setting up a shop after the term of his apprenticeship.
That Samuel Clemens kept the promise made to his mother as to drink and cards during those apprentice days is well worth remembering.
Wales had a wonderful way of cooking a potato which his fellow apprentice never forgot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apprentice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
