Lexicographical Neighbors of Truantries
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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