truantry

Example Sentences

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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

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)

But all truantry is not in the open air.

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

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

From Memories and Portraits by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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