truantry

Example Sentences

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Then the truth came out, and, had I been only for a mild walk on the links, retribution would have overtaken my truantry.

From Prester John by Buchan, John

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)

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)

If such myopic truantry is in you, there is much to be said for going afoot.

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

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