hoiden
Example Sentences
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Again and again, to the brass blare of some hoiden tune, she set the words of the lyric that "she liked the feel of," and she danced on and on.
From Friendship Village by Zona Gale
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
Little Madge is a friend of Nelly's,—a mischievous, blue-eyed hoiden.
From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Donald Grant Mitchell
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
Talking never mended matters; Jack was at the hoiden age, and had to grow into tidiness and womanhood by-and-by.
From Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
