truantry

Example Sentences

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If such myopic truantry is in you, there is much to be said for going afoot.

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

He had trod the profitable side streets until truantry had taken him.

From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I179 hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Madame, to obviate the known truantry of the King, introduced her sister, Madame de Vintinsille, as clever, but as ordinary as herself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various