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
"By the light of heaven!" said Prince John to Hubert, "an' thou suffer that runagate knave to overcome thee, thou art worthy of the gallows!"
From Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools by Emilie Kip Baker
Do you think I am an ale draper to take in every strolling runagate of the night.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
