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

In a moment of uncertainty, still confronting the clicking camera, still bathed in that withering blaze, she cast about blankly for her runagate director.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph

We must fare on, if ever we are to take that runagate.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay