truantry
Example Sentences
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Such journey would be the soul of truantry and you should set out upon the road every spring when the wind comes warm.
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 clinching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.
From Treasure Island by Winter, Milo
Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry.
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)
