runagate
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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
"Truly," said Sir Ralph, "I am sorry for the damsel: she seems fond of this wild runagate."
From Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock
The Syrian runagate: perhaps I'm writing for nothing in trusting my letter to him.
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson
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