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1. She explained that her children had left for school as normal that morning and she had no idea they were playing truant in the big city
2. no idea they were playing truant in the big city
3. ‘ Well, he didn‘t waste much time contacting the police and truant officer when he noticed the children weren‘t going to school
4. That had been why she had played truant, she had started by just hanging around, but then she had started to help at a local riding school
5. Suddenly her grades fell, she became a truant, she was sneaking out of the house at night, got arrested for joy riding in a stolen car
6. So, if the child becomes truant [truancy is the No
7. No one could have misinterpreted Robert’s look; it was that of every usually well-behaved school kid, caught out the only time he has ever played truant
8. "Refuge was not found in the overcrowded classrooms and his teachers and the presence of the truant officer filled his schooldays with reprimands
9. Taking her wrist like a truant schoolgirl, he led her around the hideous stumps that still looped and knotted on the floor
10. Holiday was truant and found herself in juvenile court before her tenth birthday
11. He lies to his parents and to his truant officer in order to
12. The truant officer, Mr
13. Then, he points to the body of his fellow officer and adds, “See that guy there? He's a truant officer
14. She felt like a truant and slunk out as though trying to avoid the prefects
15. Finding him truant, she realized that she goofed up her chance, and thought, ‘Any commonplace comment could have kept the dialogue alive, and who knows, what it would have unraveled
16. He hurtled towards her without looking where he was going, for he was too busy looking over his shoulder at his parents, who were in hot pursuit of their truant son
17. lawyer was truant for the dead meets itself
18. The post of Truant Officer had been created in order to enforce the law, as many parents preferred that their children work at the family farm or business instead of attending school
19. The principal, as might have been expected, was happy to learn that Olin was encouraging the boys to attend classes and thus did not require the wrath of the Truant Officer or the law
20. What was I thinking? I was supposed to be seeing the head teacher, not playing truant with a 6th form boy that I had only just met! I had to admit though, it was the most exciting thing that had ever happened in my entire life
21. Brooke was obliged to make very unsatisfactory reports, for Laurie was always playing truant and running over to the Marches'
22. A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks
23. Clothing their ideas in the most remote and subtle images, they betrayed, that, in the short period of their intercourse, they had discovered, with the intuitive perception of their sex, the truant disposition of his inclinations
24. —He had a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, and no truant memory
25. Still, to start on a brisk walk, and on such an errand as hers, on a dry clear wintry morning, through the rarefied air of these chalky hogs'-backs, was not depressing; and there is no doubt that her dream at starting was to win the heart of her mother-in-law, tell her whole history to that lady, enlist her on her side, and so gain back the truant
26. At Fred's last words she felt an instantaneous pang, something like what a mother feels at the imagined sobs or cries of her naughty truant child, which may lose itself and get harm
27. you were still birds-nesting and playing truant in the woods of the Shire
28. There they are eternally playing truant
29. Rob followed, all but scuffling his soles like a truant schoolboy
30. He was playing truant from school, a thing he had never done in his life
31. Now that the exhilaration of truant delights had died away, his conscience was beginning to give him salutary twinges
32. “No, brother, I made no hue and cry for you, for ’tis not the first time it has been your pleasure to play truant and leave your loving friends all without news
33. The truth is, the common people have so long regarded the Constitution of the United States with complacency, that they are now only disposed in this quarter to treat it like a truant mistress, whom they would, for a time, put away on a separate maintenance, but, without further and greater provocation, would not absolutely repudiate
34. We did not dare to play truant, however, like other boys whom we knew (we were not courageous enough for that); so we kept on going, fretting, and pining, and—learning
1. Roger’s mother worked as a cleaner, and Roger who never really attended school since he was always truanting because he had to beg and steal just to survive
1. At this moment the two truants returned, looking very important
