“He's a novitiate when it comes to inside-the-beltway politics.”

“During the novitiate, we carefully assessed the candidate's skills and aptitude for the managerial position.”

“At his investiture, the novitiate describes being reduced to a skeleton by spirits who devour and then restore his flesh.”

“He ended up losing to Michael Burgess, a medical doctor and political novice.”

“Galileo had a mixed education, starting at a monastery school in Vallombrosa where he entered the order as a novice, against the wishes of his father.”

“Success also came for Phil Stanley who won the novice sculls in confident style.”

“It was during his noviceship that Hopkins worked out an esthetic in which experience of beauty and religious experience coalesce.”

“The Cistercians, who established the new pattern, prohibited entry for anyone under the age of 16 and insisted upon a year's noviciate.”

“He helped building the minor seminary in Voorschoten and afterwards he helped in the noviciate in Vroenhof and the scholasticate in Oirschot.”

“A medical Doctor before entering the noviciate, he later spent two years in Haiti before beginning his Dominican studies.”

“Once the ceremony was over, the novitiates, priestesses and nuns gathered together in the great hall beneath the statue of Auset for a feast.”

“Well today there wouldn't be 50 people entering novitiates or convents or monasteries probably around Australia I think.”

“Now Wats are inhabited by monks, teachers, nuns, novitiates, school children, street-side sellers and tourists.”

“A very easy orchid to grow and one that is tolerant of cool conditions, this is highly recommended for orchid novices.”

“Ten complete novices struggled with jointing and stuffing a poussin and creating towers of vegetables.”

“Linux novices often find virtual memory mysterious, but with a grasp of the fundamental concepts, it's easy to understand.”