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
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
Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It becomes you ill, that are a restless man and a runagate, to doubt my justice or the King my father's, that are sedentary folk and known in the land."
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 by Various
And I don't propose to bandy words with any runagate American partisan who uses his commission to further private vengeance.
From For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
