Apprenticed Sentence Examples

Faraday himself became apprenticed to a bookbinder.

Though his poetical tastes were early developed, his father apprenticed him to a jeweller.

In 1724 he was removed from this school and taken into the house of his uncle Bernard, by whom he was shortly afterwards apprenticed to a notary.

Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills.

Here, at the age of 13, he was apprenticed to a saddler.

By and by the boy found himself drawn by preference from goldsmith's work to painting; his father, after some hesitation on the score of the time already spent in learning the former trade, gave way and apprenticed him for three years, at the age of fifteen and a half, to the principal painter of the town, Michael Wolgemut.

After a few years spent at an elementary school, he was apprenticed to a hosier at the age of eleven; He afterwards became successful in business in Nottingham, filled several civic offices, and was known for his philanthropy.

He developed an early passion for drawing, which led to his being apprenticed in 1854 for seven years to Messrs Keith && Gibb, lithographers in Aberdeen.

In 1744 he was apprenticed to his eldest brother, who had succeeded to the management of his father's pottery; and in 1752, shortly after the term of his apprenticeship had expired, he became manager of a small pottery at Stoke-upon-Trent, known as Alder's pottery, at a very moderate salary.

After being educated at the gymnasium of his native town, Tersteegen was for some years apprenticed to a merchant.

Having received the ordinary education of a parish school, he was apprenticed to his uncle, a millwright, and, after qualifying himself as a ship-modeller at Bo'ness, went to London, where he found employment under John Rennie, the celebrated engineer.

At 12 years he served for six months on a fishing smack, was afterwards apprenticed to a bootmaker and then joined the Royal Navy.

While apprenticed to a cabinet-maker he picked up a Chinese grammar written in Latin, and after mastering the latter tongue made such good progress with the former, that in 1846 James Legge engaged him to superintend the London Missionary Society's press at Shanghai.

Under Turkish rule it was impossible to obtain a liberal education in Bulgaria, and young Stambolov, after attending the communal school in his native town, was apprenticed to a tailor.

At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a clothier in London, but he appears to have early addicted himself to the "contention, novelties, opposition of government, and I The Span.

At an early age he was apprenticed to the old sailing brigs of the East Coast.

Thomas was apprenticed as a wool comber, but before he could complete his apprenticeship the firm closed down.

Emil apprenticed for a few years under the Gypsy musicians in the village.

Abraham-Louis showed an early interest in his father's work and was apprenticed to a master watchmaker before setting up on his own.

He was also apprenticed to the water by his father who was a licensed waterman.

He was educated at the parish school of Crawford, and in 1701 was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh.

His parents were poor, and after a brief period of study in the village school of Barre, he was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a maker of "buckle chapes," or tongues.

In his boyhood he was apprenticed to a smith at Paisley, and worked through several engineering shops until, in 1868, he was able to set up as a boiler-maker.

He was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in Middlebury, Vt., and then to another in Brandon, but soon abandoned this trade.

Abraham-Louis showed an early interest in his father 's work and was apprenticed to a master watchmaker before setting up on his own.

Before her venture with Skinsational, Joyce apprenticed under Robert Diemer, an innovator and expert in the skin care field as well as founder of the American Institute of Esthetics in Huntington Beach, California.

In 1883 he was apprenticed to the trade of printer and compositor.

He was apprenticed in 1799 to Weichselberger, a glass-polisher and lookingglass maker.

Robert was sent to Liskeard grammar school, and when he was about sixteen was apprenticed to a solicitor.

After having been apprenticed to a linendraper, and for three years a clerk in a Dundee business house, he entered the Hoxton (Congregational) Theological College, and in 1804 was appointed to a Congregational chapel in Aberdeen.

At ten he was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and at twenty he settled in the town of St Austell, first as manager for a shoemaker, and in 1787 began business on his own account.

In 1766 he was apprenticed to a storekeeper at Salem, in New England, and while in that employment occupied himself in chemical and mechanical experiments, as well as in engraving, in which he attained to some proficiency.

Servants, in the widest sense of the word, apprenticed workmen and agricultural labourers are carefully excluded.

There was little fighting, but the commando carried off between two and three hundred native women and children - some of whom were redeemed by their friends, and some escaped, while many of the children were apprenticed to farmers.

At fourteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and for several years worked at this trade at Ilkley.

In 1819 he was apprenticed to Nicholas Wood, a coal-viewer at Killingworth, after which he was sent in 1822 to attend the science classes at the university of Edinburgh.

After receiving a very limited education he was apprenticed to a linen manufacturer, but, finding the employment uncongenial, he resumed school-life at the institution founded by Wesley at Kingswood, near Bristol.

On leaving he was apprenticed to a civil engineer at Derby, where he acquired " a store of exclusively scientific conceptions," 1 but also experienced the hunger of mind which forced him to look to religion for satisfaction.

At sixteen he went to London and was apprenticed to a wine merchant.

At the age of twelve he became clerk to a notary, and was afterwards apprenticed to a druggist.

In his thirteenth year he was apprenticed to his halfbrother James, who was establishing himself in the printing business, and who in 1721 started the New England Courant, one of the earliest newspapers in America.

At that age he was apprenticed to a fuller and clothier, to card wool, and to dye and dress the cloth.

After three years more with the family as a day labourer at West Haven, he succeeded, with his father's consent, in being apprenticed in the office of The Northern Spectator, at East Poultney, Vermont.

Apprenticed at the age of sixteen to a surgeon, he soon went to Paris, studied medicine and surgery there, and, having qualified as a mastersurgeon, settled down to practice at Mantes.

After a short time (April 25, 1725) he was apprenticed afresh, this time to an engraver.

He was apprenticed to a goldsmith currently named Francia, and from him probably he got the nickname whereby he is generally known; he moreover studied design under Marco Zoppo.

He was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to an apothecary in Gothenburg, with whom he stayed for eight years.

At the age of ten he was apprenticed to a tailor, his spare hours being spent in acquiring the rudiments of an education.

Some of his relations wished that he should be educated for the ministry; but his father apprenticed him to a shoemaker, who also dealt in wool and cattle.

He was bred to his father's business as a cooper, and afterwards apprenticed to a ship-chandler.

At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a London apothecary named Bevans, and he afterwards returned to the neighbourhood of his birthplace, and carried on business at Plymouth with the co-operation of his master, under the title of Bevans & Cookworthy.

After being apprenticed to a local buckle-maker, he went to London to learn his trade, and, getting into debt, was imprisoned for several years.

After leaving Westminster school, he was apprenticed, in 1802, to his brother, an apothecary, with the view of adopting the profession of medicine, but his bent was towards chemistry, a sound knowledge of which he acquired in his spare time.

His father was a working man, and at fourteen the boy was apprenticed to Messrs Bradbury and Evans to learn bank-note engraving.