The Beldars are often dishonest in their dealings, and will take large advances for a tank or embankment, and then abscond with the money without doing the work.
When they borrow money or stock for cultivation they seldom abscond fraudulently from their creditors, and this simple honesty of theirs tends, I fear, to keep numbers of them still in a state little above serfdom.
But sometimes the more enterprising of them would abscond and settle down in a village.
The father's joy was of brief duration; for having been guilty of defrauding his own father of a quantity of corn, he was compelled to abscond to avoid the paternal rage and the probable consequences of a prosecution.
If the Gentleman was unknown to that Gentlewoman whose Picture he elected to bear him company that night, she with much freedom would appear, and tender her self as the subject of his pleasure; otherwiseabscond her self.
I had a strong suspicion that he might quietly abscondat night, in which case every man might instantly follow his example.
No one can imagine the trouble of such a journey with so long a retinue of carriers, most of whom are dishonest, and only seek an opportunity to abscond upon the road.
Two had previously joined that party; thus five of my men were now engaged by those slave-hunters, and I little doubted that my remaining men would abscond likewise.
I disarmed all the porters, placing their lances and shields under my bedstead in the hut, lest their owners should abscond during the night.
The large herds wandering far beyond the limits of the settled country, and without a recognised owner, suggested to the discontented servant a resource, and led him to abscondwhere he could subsist on the flesh of slaughtered spoil.
They are turned out among the gang, without special permanent restraint, and abscond again.
This way she could dress herself in peace and quickly abscond from sleazy predilections and proclivities that might have made up the baser components of oneĀOs nature but were puny in defining herself.
