By the 18th century, four types of midshipman existed: midshipman (original rating), midshipman extraordinary, midshipman (apprentice officer), and midshipman ordinary.
His off-season earnings over the years came from an extraordinary variety of means: apprentice butcher, toolmaker, coalman, general labourer, lorry driver, and "an umbrella-handle putter-onner".
The second book, Flyte (published in March 2006), begins with Septimus (now the apprentice to ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia) witnessing the kidnapping of Jenna by her older brother Simon.
Adults train themselves to find such things extraordinary, but we were all apprentice readers once, as children, where the regulations exist in a beautiful state of disorder.
WB Yeats: A Life, Volume II - The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 by RF Foster Oxford University Press, £30, pp822 The first volume of Roy Foster's extraordinary biography of Yeats, The Apprentice Mage, ended at 1914 with the poet, aged 49, assuming that both he, and possibly Ireland itself, had finally taken shape.
After he becomes an apprentice to the arch ("ExtraOrdinary") wizard of the series, Marcia Overstrand, he must study for seven years and a day until his apprenticeship ends.
Mike Ramsden, an apprentice engineer at de Havilland, spoke to Witness about working at a time of extraordinary changes in the aviation industry.
An apprentice should get apprentice wages.
Television: 'The Apprentice'.
