truantry

Example Sentences

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Such journey would be the soul of truantry and you should set out upon the road every spring when the wind comes warm.

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

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

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

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

It was but yesterday on my return from work that I witnessed a sight that moved me pleasantly to thoughts of truantry.

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