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
"Nay, no runagate; he goes too slow ever to run," said Don Jordy.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Well, I must say Marmaduke might have remembered that he had other relatives besides that runagate son," grumbled the squire.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
