Anything or anybody that might give trace of the truant Sammy were scrutinized.
In his hand he bore the well-remembered extension-bag which Sammy Pinkney had so often borne away from home upon his truant escapades.
The evening was warm with the perfume of a bit of truant summer that had somehow escaped before its time to hearten a winter-weary world against the bitter assaults of March.
Yet here and there Claire was conscious of truant warmths, like brief flashes of sunlight through a somber forest.
He put the question very much as one truant from school might put it to another, only a little more timorously.
Yorke got red, and looked very much like an impatient schoolboy caught playing truant or breaking windows.
At last the evening sun as though weary of the quiet scene, gathered all his truant rays out of the tree tops and from the purple mountain summit, and sunk to rest behind the sombre clouds that twilight spread across the sky.
In another instant, Josephine, in the daintiest of garden-hats tied under her pretty chin, was chasing her truant bird through the wood.
To wonder and to be afflicted night after night by his truant absence was bad enough, but to have seen him vanish in blue smoke would have been worse.
And the simple child, clapping her white hands, gently smiled still more joyously at the innocent, truant projects with which she proposed to inaugurate their future housekeeping.
His vrow had always borne a close resemblance to the helpmate of Socrates, and it is not to be supposed that such doings on the part of her truant spouse added to her sweetness of temper.
It is my opinion that Providence often leads us about by the hands, just as little children are taken to school, lest they should be tempted to play truant by the way.
A truant schoolboy's wantonness could blast Their flattering hopes, and leave them both to wail.
Youths were in the bottom, essaying their juvenile powers in curbing the wild steeds of their fathers, while here and there a truant girl was to be seen, stealing from her labours to admire their fierce and impatient daring.
Would the truant eyes of Alston or Greenough turn, but for a time, from their gaze at the models of antiquity, to contemplate this wronged and humbled people, little would be left for such inferior artists as ourselves to delineate.
Nor did he try to force the thoughts from him as he had done on leaving Patna, but he went in search of them as a father goes in search of little truant children hiding in the dark, and brings them back and holds them close with caresses.
Those truant flies have never yet, I fear, their rightful owner met.
At length, feeling that anything was better than sneaking there, like a boy who had played truant and feared to go home, he started for the Hall.
Now for the truant borrowing of a few minutes from business.
Then may I ride on merrily, to seek the count d'Auvergne, and never mention a word of this plot of theirs, or of my own playing truant either.
And doubtless the Count d'Auvergne to head them, and defend the truant wife against her angry husband!
While Mark was sitting beside her he realised how little she had changed from the girl who had played truant on the Westchester Downs, and yet between them lay a blackthorn fence of convention and tradition.
Betty could hear the voice of the governess calling to her, and then a sharp rebuke, as the truant came toddling back to the path.
But, other influences being equal, the truant is more likely to have gone down-wind than up.
He has not had the chance of recovery which the school system gives a like rebellious boy in a truant school.
I recall another boy who worked his way to New York and back again to Chicago before he was quite fourteen years old, skilfully escaping the truant officers as well as the police and special railroad detectives.
And when a man becomes crazed or mad, they take him to the place where he is supposed to have lost his soul and invite the truant spirit to return to his body.
For this purpose he ties the truant into his body by fastening round his wrist a piece of string on which a lukut, or antique bead, is threaded; for a magical virtue appears to be ascribed to such beads.
He pretends to catch the truant soul in a piece of cotton, which he then lays on the patient's head.
Respect and esteem had long departed, and without their aid, truant love was not to be reclaimed.
There were no informing signs about the place, so Miner decided that the truant must now merely be resting on his journey.
Truant officers, who may be required to serve only part time and who may receive pay for actual services, are set over specified districts and required to bring in all truant school children.
A wide-roofed kitchen chimney, a page-boy leaving the room by a flight of steps which leads to the house door, and the table at which the truant monks are seated, complete a picture of homely Italian life.
When he was a boy he would run the twelve miles from here to the town to get a talk with her; for all he was sure of a thrashing from Tom for playing truant when he got back," she went on.
It was in the Seventh-Avenue school last Christmas that I offered the truant class a four-bladed penknife as a prize for whittling out the truest Maltese cross.
The truant officer never found his way to Paolo's tenement to discover that he could neither read nor write, and, what was more, would probably never learn.
I played truant from school for several months, as you know, and am now trying to bridge the chasm.
After submitting to a vigorous brushing, bathing hands and faces and pinning into place some truant locks, they went below to a tempting repast, to which the two hungry travelers did ample justice.
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