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
Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"By the light of heaven!" said Prince John to Hubert, "an' thou suffer that runagate knave to overcome thee, thou art worthy of the gallows!"
From Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools by Baker, Emilie Kip
The Armenian's property had evidently been left under guard in the grove, and was doubtless, by this time, far away, in the possession of one or other of Diggle's runagate followers.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
