What is "prentice"

Usage examples of "prentice".

Midge Prentice woke under her mosquito net and breathed the familiar smells of a hot Indian night.

And a vision of Dolly in the arms of Giles Prentice rose, not for the first time, to trouble him.

Midge Prentice, white face a mask of terror, her bunched nightie gripped convulsively in a small hot hand.

Further reference to his notebook revealed that Dolly and Giles Prentice had lived at number 5 Curzon Street.

He made his way on to the abandoned site but his progress was hindered by the dense scrub and weeds which struggled across the place where Dorothy Prentice had died in the fire and where Chedi Khan had died holding her in his arms.

Consulting his notes again, he discovered that Prentice, however, had not gone far away.

I hear it was through Prentice that she found out about the wretched thing.

I heard just this morning from Colonel Prentice that they are to be found in a clump of willows on the river bank near a small native village just a few miles north of the station.

Giles Prentice over there of whom you will have heard a great deal, I dare say.

Giles Prentice joined them on attachment and spent five years back on the frontier where he was born.

He paused and Joe sensed that, though there was much more Prentice had to say, was even keen to say, he was about to obey the code of the Club which forbade that anyone should talk shop and was preparing to close down the conversation.

I can still remember the flutterings he made in the hen coop when he appeared on the station with Prentice for the first time!

Chedi Khan was devoted to Prentice and what would he do but spend his life defending the memsahib?

Dolly Prentice, being the first and by far the most convincingly accidental, was, Joe considered, the most significant.

Our friends talked about it a lot of course and the destruction of the Prentice bungalow gave me quite a turn.