truantry
Example Sentences
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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)
It was but yesterday on my return from work that I witnessed a sight that moved me pleasantly to thoughts of truantry.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
It was only this afternoon that so slight a circumstance as a ray of light flashing in my eye provided me an agreeable and unexpected truantry.
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
