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apprentices

n. (plural of apprentice English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: apprentice)

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Lokos was a wealthy man, employed a large retinue of servants and saw to it that every minute his apprentices were not eating, sleeping or devoting to duties in shop, workrooms or garden, they were reading his extensive collection of works on pharmacology, human and animal physiology, differing theories respecting the treatment of wounds, injuries and illnesses, horticulture of herbs and a vast array of other interrelated subjects.

Nevyn had several apprentices in the art of herbcraft, the most capable was a young woman named Gavra, a tall, slender lass with raven-dark hair and hazel eyes.

With her in the three-story roundhouse lived her five apprentices, who waited on her to earn their training.

Alastyr and his apprentices mounted their horses and rode away, leading Camdel behind them.

And this Alastyr had had only two apprentices, which meant there was only one left.

Even if the food had been palatable, Cook never made enough for the apprentices to eat their fill.

There would be other apprentices who would understand this most recent injustice.

As the apprentices were herded to the far end of the refectory, the leader of the guard stormed through the door, his face apoplectic beneath his ornate helm.

We know we look for Ranita, and we know she is not among the apprentices gathered here.

It is an honorable craft, Neeka, and one of the few that will accept women as apprentices or masters.

Master Lokos greeted the known pimp and professional ruffian coldly for the benefit of the two other apprentices and the non-Ehleen customers.

In the house of Master Lokos, she had her first taste of true, familial affection, for the master and his plump, jolly wife customarily treated apprentices like the sons and daughters they had never had.

Thereafter, Neeka did much of the workaday compounding and distilling, leaving the master free to attend customers, instruct other apprentices and do the research and experiments which were his passion.

Froh, you should know that this duchy has laws dictating the decent and humane treatment of apprentices and resident journeymen, such as Mistress Neeka, here.

Master Lokos had never fretted that craft masters of other trades laughed at him, he had treated his apprentices like his own sons and daughters, rather than doing for them only that which the law commanded.