runagate

Example Sentences

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His great-great-great-grandfather Scipio, a runaway slave, intended to escape from Kentucky alone but wound up trying to help another runagate, a pregnant woman named Abby, cross the Ohio River.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

A reformed runagate finds happiness once more by his wife's side; a mixed chorus softly hums Make Me a Child Again, Just For Tonight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name.

From Time Magazine Archive

You was never son of mine, to be a runagate, and traitor.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

To avert suspicion that he meant to become a runagate, Ralegh was ready not to command, but to ship as a private man.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)