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

Osberne stood up and said: "What hast thou been about, runagate?"

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May

"What," cried the Hermit with a start, "you are a runagate nun?"

From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith