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
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Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Why should we make of this trifling despite o’er a runagate thrall such a matter of bitter menacing?
From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay
We must fare on, if ever we are to take that runagate.
From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.