That truancy was to a great extent responsible for these juvenile delinquents was proved by the fact that more then one-half of the lads sent to Magill had committed the crimes for which they were first convicted while truanting.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence
"I'm not truanting," said Jill.
"Jill's Red Bag"
Amy Le Feuvre
The woman in David's church was of a languorous, sumptuous type, built on generous proportions, with a mass of dark hair waving low on her forehead, with dark, straight-gazing, deep-searching eyes, the kind that impel and hold all truanting glances.
"Sunny Slopes"
Ethel Hueston