truantry

Example Sentences

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Most of us are 19admitted into truantry by the accidents, merely, of our senses.

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

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)

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

From Treasure Island by Winter, Milo

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