truantry
Example Sentences
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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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
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 Milo Winter
He had trod the profitable side streets until truantry had taken him.
From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
