He couldn't have trusted so swift and timely a stroke to a mere apprentice.

This was a view of the library that no mere apprentice would have.

As much as I hate to agree with a mere apprentice, the kid knows what he's talking about.

Me, Wuntvor, a mere unschooled apprentice, the leader of all our forces?

Harm to the great wizard, whose mere apprentice he was?

Well," he said stubbornly, "obviously a man taught at a special school would know more than a mere apprentice.

A mere apprentice would not be expected to fight in such things.

A mere apprentice would be no protection, more nuisance than use.

"We are not mere apprentices in the ordinary sense," said Albinus.

I make no excuse by saying I was a mere apprentice to Sam.