There were no doubt within the walls a great many 'prentices in this condition, but I speak of only one, and his name was Hugh Graham.
Ben," he cried, Bustling into the room with Dekker and Brome, "The prentices are up!
Tell it, and be quick,' laughed the prentices below!
Ay, and we are all, too, Marchaunt Adventurers, Prenticesof London, and lords of Engeland.
Now, in those days, Marchaunt Adventurers Shared with their prentices the happy chance Of each new venture.
Under his tower, a flock of prentices Calling like bells, of little size or weight, But bells no less, ask that the Bell of Bow Shall tell the tale of Richard Whittington, As thus.
I closed The thick oak doors against the coloured storm Of prenticesin red and green and ray, Saffron and Reading tawny.
They are good lads, ourprentices of Cheape, But hasty!
The 'prentices were well to the fore as usual; like so many eel-like creatures, they had slipped into the front rank as soon as the great doors had been opened.
He hath arrived from the Tower," whispered the 'prentices to one another.
Also, we sometimes bathed in Perilous Pond, wherein many 'Prentices are yearly drowned; hard by the Well of Dame Annis the Clear.
Others were hastily bringing Candles to their Doors; and still we could hear Men and 'Prentices running forward and crying "Lights!
This one has taught his very 'prentices to look big at me as I pass.
But the zany 'prentices knew not this virtuous resistance was make-believe, and they ran at me as if I were some thief caught in the act.
While I was making play with my rapier, thinking to fright them off, all the 'prentices in Bucklersbury began to pour into the shop, shouting clubs and brandishing 'em at the same time.
Go, or I will call my father, to have his 'prentices throw you into the street!
Ould Alice shrieked, but Duck had taken care no one should come to her, for he'd locked and barred the entrance from that part of the house were the 'prentices and servants were, to the passage which led to the parlour.
Mr. Snagsby descends and finds the two 'prentices intently contemplating a police constable, who holds a ragged boy by the arm.
The 'prentices giggle internally and nudge each other.
The 'prentices think somebody may have been murdered there in bygone times.
Prentices stood ringing their bells and shouting their wares at every shop-door.
Shopmen saw needy customers in us and sent their 'prentices running.
The 'prentices allowed the litter to come on till they could surround it, when they set up a loud shout, making it evident that mischief was intended.
How Sir Jocelyn's cause was espoused by the 'prentices XIX.
Here a numerous body of 'prentices were already collected, holding a consultation as to their plan of attack.
The bold London 'prentices have taken your cause in hand, and will avenge you.
Because I have been unjustly treated, and may perchance find it difficult, if not impossible, to obtain redress, it does not follow that you and your fellow 'prentices are to violate the law.
You might as well attempt to turn back a mill-dam that has burst its bounds, as the headstrong London 'prentices when they have taken up their cudgels.
After dinner all the 'prentices who had taken part in the sports filed through the hall and were each presented with a gold piece by the lord-mayor, in the name of the corporation, for having so nobly sustained the renown of the city.
They say that the king himself will adjudge the prizes; and there is to be a grand assault-at-arms between ten of the 'prentices with a captain, and an equal number of sons of nobles and knights.
It does not vex us to read how Ghirlandajo used to scold hisprentices for neglecting trivial orders that would fill his purse with money.
Be merry Peter, and feare not thy Master, Fight for credit of the Prentices Peter.
He told me that that had never been done in the city since it was a city, two prentices put in the pillory, and that it ought not to be so.
Then give him twenty dinars and to each of his prentices a dinar.
Give him thirty dinars and to each of the prentices two, saying, 'These gold pieces are for the chasing and the price of the ring shall remain.
We may see Humphrey Stonor, with sleepy eyes, making his way downstairs on a frosty morning, from those huge raftered attics, where perhaps the 'prentices used to sleep.
I hear that eight of the ringleaders in the late tumults of the 'prentices at Easter are condemned to die.
Though his prentices were tried, Dürer appeared neither for nor against them; nor can we help ourselves to understand a fact so strange by any other mention of his attitude.
Probably they were the most talented prentices of the craft, since the great master chose them: besides, painting was an occupation which allowed of a certain intellectual development.
T is not only ploughmen and prentices see truth in John Ball's doctrine and Long Will's dream.
This was a London mob, prentices and artisans for the most part.
To these the prentices were joined, and every street and every lane in London ran a river of men.
Sweating shopkeepers jostled and swore, women squealed, and 'prentices drove their elbows into any fat paunch that was neighbourly.
Calote saw this block, and the bodies of men lying on heap; and the prenticesplayed at foot-ball with the bloody heads.
Hast never seen the 'prentices breaking each other his pate of a holiday in London streets?
The prenticesand men of London are killing Flemish weavers, sire, not far away.
London prentices played at ball the while they waited; country louts sang and cuffed one another; cooks went about crying "Hot pies, hot!
Without on Cornhill red-handed prentices were going home to their beds.
Prentices sang lewd songs and played vile pranks; anon the babel rose into a guffaw or lapsed to a snarl.
Oh, good citizens of London, do ye stand idly by and see the rights of prentices and masters so trampled?
Thy father saved my life this day from a rout of prentices that would have mauled me as I came hither,--because, forsooth, the seneschal to the Earl of March is cast in prison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prentices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
