truantry
Example Sentences
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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)
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
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
From ethical sophistication and moral truantry Mark Twain evolves an inexhaustible supply of humour.
From Mark Twain by Henderson, Archibald
