truantry

Example Sentences

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The child has this truantry when he plays at Indian, for he fashions the universe to his desires.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

But all truantry is not in the open air.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clinching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.

From Treasure Island by Winter, Milo

Most of us are 19admitted into truantry by the accidents, merely, of our senses.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

I was too snug in the Casa Lanfranchi to be tempted astray, and any truantry of mine from the round of my tasks led me back to Aurelia and love.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry