Definition of Truantries

1. truantry [n] - See also: truantry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truantries

troy pound
troy unit
troy weight
troyounce
troyounces
troys
truage
truages
truancies
truancy
truant
truant officer
truanted
truanting
truantly
truantries (current term)
truantry
truants
truantship
trub
trubs
trubtall
trubu
trucage
trucages
truce
trucebreaker
trucebreakers
truced
truceless

Literary usage of Truantries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"On all his truantries he went pencil and copy-book in hand, trying to fit his impression of the scene to words, to com pose original rhymes, tales, ..."

2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1843)
"The Parsonage stood only a quarter of a mile from our lodge gate; and it was, consequently, the readiest of my truantries to slip out whenever Tickle was ..."

3. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends by Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Colvin (1899)
"On all his truantries he went pencil and copybook in hand, trying to fit his impression of the scene to words, to compose original rhymes, tales, dialogues, ..."

4. Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey (1909)
"From childhood he had never ceased to practise writing, and on all his truantries went pencil and copybook in hand. Family and school magazines in ..."

5. The Education of Children by Michel de Montaigne (1891)
"... it was infinitely to my advantage, to have to do with an understanding tutor, who very well knew discreetly to connive at this and other truantries of ..."

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