truantry

Example Sentences

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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)

From ethical sophistication and moral truantry Mark Twain evolves an inexhaustible supply of humour.

From Mark Twain by Henderson, Archibald

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)

In mean contrast to skulls, bowie-knives and other red villainy, my thoughts will be set toward the mild truantry of trudging for an afternoon in the country.

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

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