truant schoolboys. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It'll be many a day I shall be called truant, I reckon. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference
But still his heart failed; for he could not recall his truant thoughts from the wolf-like. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference
The girls hurried out before the employees had a chance to call the truant officer and ran down the street. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi Zero - v.3: It's So Wonderful, It's So Beautiful] Reference
Then the Kentish king, admonished by a dream of the archbishop's, made submission, recalled the truant bishops, and restored Justus to. From Wordnik.com. [Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain] Reference
Fifteen "truant" parents have faced time behind bars. From Wordnik.com. [News4Jax.com - Local News] Reference
Falstaff is a tutor and surrogate father to Hal, the "truant" prince. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Some of the plaintiffs were 11 or 12 years old when they were labeled "truant" or "wayward.". From Wordnik.com. [Projo.com Projo Local News] Reference
But three days elapsed without tidings from the truant. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
It isn't right of you to encourage him to play truant. '. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
Till my truant fancy wanders with that old straw hat of mine. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
On further inquiry he learned that the truant was dependent on his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
It was an intense relief to have chased successfully the truant halfpence. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
No reproof fell from the latter's lips as the truant returned to his post. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
He is now guarding the chicks on a ranch and is making a dandy truant officer, so the. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
Wolfe hearing the joyous news started out to bring back the truant as a lesson to others. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
He had, therefore, immediately started for Scotland to endeavour to bring back the truant. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Some kids who miss school are simply truant — they'd just rather be doing something else. From Wordnik.com. ['I Hate School' Extreme Edition] Reference
I was deeply incensed with Father because he had punished me for playing truant from school. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
In the end his father heard that he was playing truant, and tried to force the boy back to school. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) HANSEN: And you were mostly truant at college and you had multiple fiances. From Wordnik.com. ['Apologize, Apologize!': A Rollicking Family Affair] Reference
Then joy filled the heart of Thomas M'Calmont, and for once the fault of playing truant went unpunished. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
'Naughty truant!' she murmured, drawing him towards her -- 'why have you absented yourself from me so long?. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
But they were at a lower risk of playing truant and misbehaving than their older peers, the researchers found. From Wordnik.com. [Born too late: age ruins GCSE results for 10,000 pupils a year] Reference
A repeat truant, the girl had missed several hours of classes despite being under court order to attend school. From Wordnik.com. ['Mom Was Mad.'] Reference
She had such a 'wholesome fear of consequences,' that she never played truant, as one whom I could mention did. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
As a truant Twitterer I always end up corresponding with my Twitter mates via email if I want to make a connection. From Wordnik.com. [Dyane Jean François: Twitter, What Is It Good For?] Reference
We have been playing truant, or altogether taken up with the lessons of that great, selfish, public-school -- the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
But nothing turns up until the shadows of evening fall and warn the truant home, where he is welcomed with a dogwood sprout. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
A low voiced conversation took place, and then Cyril was called down to the desk and questioned closely about his truant sister. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
The very day after he started on foot, his father, with a friend of his, reached Annecy on horseback, in pursuit of the truant boy. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
It was as if a lot of schoolboys, playing truant, had been rounded up, and as a last indication of defiance had given their class yell. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
I tell my story: I was a self-conscious adolescent caught up in the '60s drug culture, truant from high school and at war with my mother. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Hold The Keys Are Listening] Reference
At the very moment that thus they discussed him, Gilian, a truant from school, which now claimed his attention, as Brooks sorrowfully said. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
I dare not hint at my truant thought to Auchinbreac or before any of these fiery officers of mine, who fear perhaps more than they love me. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
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