15 Verbs to Use for the Word protégé

The reception accorded Tendilla's protégé by the King and Queen in Saragossa was benign and encouraging.

Of course Sanders and Hubbard meant the best, yet in reality they were seeking to drive their protégé in exactly the wrong direction.

Somers and Montague wished to employ their protégé in public service abroad.

"A few weeks after this pleasant interview, I had established my protégé at Utica, and obtained him several commissions.

Society was out of town, but Lady Teasdale, with a house full of friends about her down in Hampshire, did not forget her protégé; she waited with pleasant expectation for the young man's release from poverty.

"Eh, Signor Capitano," cried Vito Viti, as he met his new protégé with an air of cordiality as soon as the foot of the latter touched the shore, "we looked for the pleasure of receiving you into our bosom, as it were, here in the haven.

The Abbé determined, at once, to attempt to restore his protégé to the rights of which he had been so cruelly defrauded; but, being himself too infirm to attempt the journey, he sent the youth, with his steward, and a fellow-pupil named Didier, to make the tour of all the cities of France till they should find the home of Theodore.

On seeing his late protégé, the ambassador halted for a moment, and with a smile of triumph said"You owe your dismissal to me, Sir Jocelyn.

Francesco at first shielded his protégé, but his overbearing conduct and his importunities at length alienated his regard, and he made no attempt to conceal his displeasure.

"John," he called imperiously, and up stepped his protégé from the dancing-floor, where he too had tried to swing his awkward legs and shout a cheer.

he cried; and a few hard slaps struck his patient protégé; then he pushed him toward the door and gave him a good kick on the way.

Bambini taught his protégé all he knew, but the pupil soon surpassed the master and became his instructor in turn; for if the one had talent, the other possessed genius.

He told her how he was the son of a trusted steward of Darcy's father, and had been left by the old gentleman to his heir's liberality and care, and how Darcy had absolutely disregarded his father's wishes, and had treated his protégé in cruel and unfeeling fashion.

It does chance that her taste is mine in very many cases; but you underrate our protégé when you speak of her as ignorant and uncultured.

Americans do not consider that any fair-minded man possessed of ordinary commonsense can honestly believe that nations seeking to provoke war with Germany would have urged their protégé to make a humiliating surrender to insolent and unjust demands.

15 Verbs to Use for the Word  protégé