Ulysses vocabulary

As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight so remarkable to a tyro in the far ocean fisheries— a whaler at sea, and long absent from home.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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I was not so cool. I was still a tyro so far as concerned knowing how to behave in desperate circumstances.

Jack London. The Iron Heel

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'It is my fate. Then to-night, you must remember, I shall be a beginner, and you know the tyro's luck.'

Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)

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I was no more than a tiro among a troop of veterans, who had compassion upon my youth and conveyed me home in the morning by what means I know not

Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

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So well is this understood, that a man must be a mere tyro in the arts of Erewhonian polite society, unless he instinctively suspects a hidden “yea” in every “nay” that meets him.

Samuel Butler. Erewhon