truantry

Example Sentences

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Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I179 hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

There is something rather stirring in such prodigious marshaling, but I hear you ask what this has to do with truantry.

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 Memories and Portraits by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry.

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