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
He had been, so they said, a runagate, a 234night-raker, and in the days of his youth a trifle wild.
From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Leopold turned to his feudal lords, Who stood in wondering; "Now prison me straight this runagate," Said he, "let us lodge this King!"
From The Deluge and Other Poems by Presland, John
