truantry

Indeed, I denied myself many opportunities; acting upon an extensive and highly rational system of truantry, which cost me a great deal of trouble to put in exercise — perhaps as much as would have taught me Greek — and sent me forth into the world and the profession of letters with the merest shadow of an education.

Memories and Portraits 2005

If you look back on your own education, I am sure it will not be the full, vivid, instructive hours of truantry that you regret; you would rather cancel some lack-lustre periods between sleep and waking in the class.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

That was one thing, at least, from which my truantry protected me.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Then the truth came out, and, had I been only for a mild walk on the links, retribution would have overtaken my truantry.

Prester John 2005

Madame, to obviate the known truantry of the King, introduced her sister, Madame de

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

And to him there was doubtless something unwholesome and repellent in the most innocent of my tastes; I could not even sin roundly, like other boys, by pilfering or truantry, but must display an exotic passion for reading forbidden books, an abhorred dexterity at caricature.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

Reared in a slave-holding community of narrow-visioned, arrogantly provincial people of the lower middle class; seeing his own father so degrade himself as to cuff his negro house-boy; consorting with ragamuffins, the rag-tag and bob-tail of the town, in his passion for bohemianism and truantry -- young

Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920

From ethical sophistication and moral truantry Mark Twain evolves an inexhaustible supply of humour.

Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920

Now he could devise that extensive and, as he proudly proclaims it, that “highly rational” system of truantry which cost him such a deal of trouble to apply practically.

Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Harvey 1913

From ethical sophistication and moral truantry Mark Twain evolves an inexhaustible supply of humour.

Mark Twain Henderson, Archibald 1910