truantry

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From ethical sophistication and moral truantry Mark Twain evolves an inexhaustible supply of humour.

From Mark Twain by Henderson, Archibald

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

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)

The child has this truantry when he plays at Indian, for he fashions the universe to his desires.

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

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