There are two answers to this problem: periodic housecleaning, without fear or favor, together with careful scrutiny of the apprentices and other newcomers in the field.
Walter's modesty and kind good-nature had perhaps made him a trifle more free and easy with his father's apprentices than was quite desirable for either him or them.
It was a purple passage, just as Victor's wrecking of the tea-house in the Bonin Islands and my being looted by the runaway apprentices were purple passages.
We--the apprentices and I--are swaying and clinging to one another under the stars.
Michael bought lumber and found apprentices to help, and the carpenter of the colony repaired barns and outhouses, fences, or built shacks, whenever the head of affairs saw fit to need another.
But there was still a further work for him to do before his crude apprentices should be ready to be sent down into the wilds of nature.
In a country far away, He lives and ruleth regally: The sons of men his servants be, His twelve apprentices are we.
Clerks, shopmen, and apprentices strike their foreheads with considerable violence, and return behind the counters despondingly.
Enter Jeremiah Scout with a watering-pot; he sprinkles the floor, while the apprenticesare arranging their neckcloths.
Mother, I entreat you, consent to send the children away as apprentices far from here.
You will place the children as apprentices far from this, in the provinces.
Platt and Parsons were his contemporary apprentices in departments of the drapery shop, and the three were drawn together into a close friendship by the fact that all their names began with P.
Sometimes when trade was dull the unfortunate apprentices were sent out to tour the streets and bring in customers.
For to him to pass from the silent lands and to enter the brawling streets where apprentices were putting up the shutters and beggars were raking among heaps of market garbage was to fall half way from the clouds.
Cork), where farmapprentices are received and instructed.
Children born of unions between Hottentot women and the imported slaves constituted a body of apprentices whom the farmers had the right to keep for a certain number of years, and who then became free.
He did not use his apprentices ill, because he knew he had himself a Master in heaven.
Item, that no weaver shall keep two apprentices in one loom working except one of them be in his last year.
Examples are given of petitions asking that wages should be regulated and that the limitation of apprentices should be enforced under the statute 5 Elizabeth c.
We have made special inquiry of such poor children as are fit to be bound apprentices to husbandry and otherwise, and of such as are fit to take apprentices, and therein we have taken such course as by law is required.
He was besieged with requests to take gentlemen apprentices into the works, hundreds of pounds sometimes being offered as premium, but he resolutely declined, preferring to employ boys whom he could train up as workmen.
Two apprentices take down from the wall and bring forward the Leges Tabulaturoe.
There is to be directly a song-trial: such song-apprentices as commit no offence against the table of rules are to be promoted to mastership.
Apprentices and young girls dance together to a measure daintily gay as their fluttering ribbon-knots.
His meditation is interrupted by the apprentices snatching up and carrying off the chair.
The apprentices in their glee over the prospective entertainment join hands and dance in a ring around the curtained recess where the Marker shortly shall be chronicling the slips and blunders of this self-confident lordling.
The apprentices come flocking, mischievous instigators to mischief, and the journeymen, little better than they.
The apprentices in merry tumult take apart the Marker's closet, hurry off benches and seats, rapidly clearing the church of all signs of the meeting.
Near the window, twoapprentices sewed, under the superintendence of Rachel Gray.
The apprentices had long been gone to bed; as soon as supper was over, Mrs. Gray intimated to Rachel the propriety of following their example.
An Act for the preventing of persons under age, apprentices or servants, being transported out of the province without the consent of their masters, parents, or guardians.
The act was applicable to fugitive apprentices as well as to slaves, a provision of some importance at the time.
The wool was only coming down slowly, and the apprentices had their fair share of work cut out for them.
The apprentices disappeared from the ship before we put to sea.
My friend Mr. Trapp had at that time a vessel in port of which he was part owner, and as she carried apprentices I was to take my place among them on her next voyage, but it was also stipulated that a premium was to be paid.
It was one of the desires of Captain Hole that his apprentices should be first-class helmsmen, and for some unexplained reason that they should steer better than the able seamen.
The ship in the meantime was worked by the apprenticesand afterguard.
The skipper’s face must have been a study when he was told that the ship’s boat was to be seen made fast to the steps and the three apprentices missing.
We apprentices were taught to observe the meridian altitude, and sometimes in the afternoons and evenings the captain gave us some instruction in navigation, but the mate rather resented what he termed loafing in the cabin in the afternoon.
Then it came out that for some offence, I never heard what, the master had turned him out of the cabin to come and live with the apprentices and the warrant officers.
We were five apprentices in all, and, with the carpenter and boatswain, lived in the starboard side of the topgallant forecastle.
My new captain was James Craigie, a Scotchman, I think, from the kingdom of Fife, and there were two apprentices on board from the same town.
There were two or three apprentices and one Bob McCarthy, an ordinary seaman, who was a friend of the owners.
Whether there is the same zeal now concerning the details of their calling among sailor boys as there was in my time I cannot say, but we apprentices in the Alwynton had always striven to learn all we could about our business.
He took me to my first theatre, and next morning at breakfast was solemnly reproved by his father for causing me to break that clause in my indenture which forbade the apprentices to frequent taverns or playhouses.
An acquaintance with theapprentices of the booksellers sometimes enabled him to borrow a small one, which he was careful to return clean and in good season.
His brother, being unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family.
In 1733, Franklin sent one of his apprentices to Charleston, South Carolina, where a printer was wanted.
When apprentices are bound out, it is usual to have certain agreements drawn up between them and their masters, sealed and signed according to certain forms required by law.
His elder brothers were, at an early age, put apprentices to different trades; for their father was a man of honest industry, but with little or no property, and unable to support the expense of keeping them long at school.
When his brother and the apprentices had gone to their meals, he was left in the printing office alone.
Feeling rather elated by the success he had met with, he made quite a display of all his good fortune before his brother's apprentices and journeymen, and ended by giving them a dollar to drink his health with.
On Sunday the masters begin to drink; for the apprentices there is dog-fighting without any stint.
Cahier and Martin] When apprentices or companions wished to become masters, they were called aspirants, and were subjected to successive examinations.
They also received the taxes for the benefit of the association; and, lastly, they examined the apprentices and installed masters into their office (Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apprentices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
