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 Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clinching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.
From Treasure Island by Milo Winter
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 Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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
