truantry
Example Sentences
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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)
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)
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)
The child has this truantry when he plays at Indian, for he fashions the universe to his desires.
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
