Yes, only to be stopped by a lovesick brigand and run down like a truant schoolboy.

There the magistrate's pace had slackened, and he had loitered like a truant schoolboy among the furze and briars.

But in his first film role he starred as a truant schoolboy in his brother's 1965 film, Boy and Bicycle.

Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy.

Both of us sat still, like truant schoolboys, with our hands on our knees.

"May I ask the meaning of your leaving the house like a truant schoolboy at this hour of the morning, and in such garb!"