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

Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name.

From Time Magazine Archive

When this Pickthank had told his tale, the Judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

And I am quite ready to allow that in this state she will escape the delusions that make mock of mankind, and will have no temptations to play the runagate.

From The Well of Saint Clare by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)