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

And, when I lay on the ground sprawling, do you think the jolly runagate didn't rein up and give me a broad laugh, and ask me if he could be of any sarvice to me?

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

"Truly," said Sir Ralph, "I am sorry for the damsel: she seems fond of this wild runagate."

From Maid Marian by Peacock, Thomas Love