truantry

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In mean contrast to skulls, bowie-knives and other red villainy, my thoughts will be set toward the mild truantry of trudging for an afternoon in the country.

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

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

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

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

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

That was one thing, at least, from which my truantry protected me.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis