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 Gale, Zona

I cannot recollect without indignation, the jokes and hoiden tricks, which knots of young women indulged themselves in, when in my youth accident threw me, an awkward rustic, in their way.

From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Wollstonecraft, Mary

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 Titcomb, Timothy

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 Cawein, Madison J.

May was a promising girl, "almost a hoiden," the neighbors said.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.