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
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
May was a promising girl, "almost a hoiden," the neighbors said.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
It was not so long since the princess had been a hoiden among them, abounding in the life which rushes to extravagant action.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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
