truantry
Example Sentences
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But all truantry is not in the open air.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
That was one thing, at least, from which my truantry protected me.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
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
