hoiden
Example Sentences
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With redbud cheeks and bluet eyes, Big eyes, the homes of happiness, To meet me with the old surprise, Her hoiden hair all bonnetless.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
A light-hearted, sportive girl, with an incontinent overflow of spirits, is condemned as a hoiden.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Timothy Titcomb
Well, I suppose I must endure that also; an aristocratic lecture on the one hand, and the uncouth affections of a hoiden on the other.
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
Miss Hastings had been prepared to see a hoiden, an awkward, unfledged schoolgirl, one who, never having seen much of good society, had none of the little graces and charms that distinguish young ladies.
From Love Works Wonders A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame
May was a promising girl, "almost a hoiden," the neighbors said.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
