truantry

Example Sentences

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I was too snug in the Casa Lanfranchi to be tempted astray, and any truantry of mine from the round of my tasks led me back to Aurelia and love.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Then the truth came out, and, had I been only for a mild walk on the links, retribution would have overtaken my truantry.

From Prester John by Buchan, John

If such myopic truantry is in you, there is much to be said for going afoot.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

Madame, to obviate the known truantry of the King, introduced her sister, Madame de Vintinsille, as clever, but as ordinary as herself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

That was one thing, at least, from which my truantry protected me.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis