“Nevertheless, were I giving advice to a tiro in novel writing, I should recommend it.”

“It is obvious that tiro thought the passage compromising and struck it out.”

“Note that a tiro de gracia is also counted as a sign of torture.”

“A tyro in the art of war could see that much of the strategy that was going on.”

“It is veteran versus tyro, wily old fox against bristling young cub, a man who has done it all against a boy who threatens to do it all.”

“I would, and do, recommend this as the best book for the tyro, the student, the general reader, and even, in a revisionary context, for the expert.”

“Her eagerness, her impatience, her longings to be with them, were such as to bring a line or two of Cowper's Tirocinium for ever before her.”

“Need proof: watch Spain's young tyros run rings around our boys in the 2-0 victory last February.”

“Ian Stone, an experienced comic hand, was compering, and did a funny 15-minute set before introducing the tyros.”

“Not that Aguirre's young tyros can do everything themselves, with a number of battled-hardened veterans also having a weighty role to play.”