runagate
Example Sentences
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His great-great-great-grandfather Scipio, a runaway slave, intended to escape from Kentucky alone but wound up trying to help another runagate, a pregnant woman named Abby, cross the Ohio River.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016
Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name.
From Time Magazine Archive
A reformed runagate finds happiness once more by his wife's side; a mixed chorus softly hums Make Me a Child Again, Just For Tonight.
From Time Magazine Archive
The room, stiflingly close, lay in semi-darkness; on the bed sprawled the young runagate, dead asleep, his arms tossed wide.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
The sight of Hamish at a carriage-door guided her to her runagate son.
From The Channings by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
