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

"By the light of heaven!" said Prince John to Hubert, "and thou suffer that runagate knave to overcome thee, thou art worthy of the gallows!"

From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Pearson, Paul M. (Paul Martin)

"My runagate apprentice look up to my daughter!"

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir