They seem to me to prove the presence of the ' prentice hand.

He tried his ' prentice hand on you; and then he came to me.

But Bluebell was trying her ' prentice hand with a veteran in such warfare.

But that is no reason why I should not try my prentice hand.

Years since she had tried a trembling ' prentice hand at flirtations.

Let him try his ' prentice hand on Bamberg and Reichenan.

As it is, he had only tried his ' prentice hand.

Nor need you hesitate to try your "' prentice hand" at this work.

I bow, in passing, to the old college where I tried my prentice hand as a teacher.

It was evident that he was no ' prentice hand at the business, but a good master flogger.

My ' prentice hand I'll try on Rosy, and you shall have the result ready to print on Tuesday morning.

How would I like to try my prentice hand on picking and stealing for the pure fun of the thing?

Over twenty years had passed since Jill Carden, the English girl, had first tried her ' prentice hand upon the obstreperous camel.

She tried her ' prentice hand on Baron Hulot, and soon plucked him bare-pluckedhim, ay, and singed him to the skin.

The poetic fragments and wholes are less promising, I think, than the prose; they are evidently more experimental, and show the ' prentice hand more.

Ruth had actually been trying her " prentice hand," as Mr. Hammond had called it, at the production of a moving picture scenario.