She didn't care if she was called a hoyden when she chose to follow her dreams. From LearnThat.org.
If a girl does not conform, she is defined as a "hoyden" or a "tomboy.". From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
'You thoughtless, selfish, undisciplined little hoyden!. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
"Your Highness cannot possibly wish to appear the hoyden -". From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
A regular hoyden may be read between those kind parental lines. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rebel A Novel] Reference
"That's the most hoyden jade I'm sure you ever gave the ferule to.". From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
I had rather be a hoyden, Aunt Horsingham, and go on in my own way. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
"You are a perfect hoyden!" repeated the stern voice in rising anger. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
Now of course, you are no longer a young hoyden but a dignified lady. From Wordnik.com. [Snow Angels]
I was a dreadful hoyden when f was growing up, and still am sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing with Clara]
Miss Matilda Murray was a veritable hoyden, of whom little need be said. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
And obviously he'd spent too much time alone if he lusted after such a hoyden. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
I do not think I was an ordinary child; and notwithstanding my hoyden nature had. From Wordnik.com. [A Grandmother's Recollections] Reference
But at first I was just an overgrown hoyden, and joined Sasha in playing the fool. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
She that will not feel my ful-moon let her peel to thee as the hoyden and the impudent!. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
I'm afraid my childhood reputation as a rebellious hoyden has followed me into adulthood. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
She doubted she would have been able to convince any of them looking like a disheveled hoyden. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
"So what would you have me do?" he asked, almost afraid to hear what this hoyden would suggest. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
What ails you, that a young woman of your family and years acts like an irresponsible hoyden? '. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Your high powered hefty hoyden thinks nothing of ramping through a whole suite of smokeless hus-bands. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
"What were you doing teetering along the top of a high wall earlier just like a twelve-year-old hoyden?". From Wordnik.com. [Snow Angels]
'It would do for me,' said Cadfael simply, 'if I were a green boy expecting a hoyden known from a child. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
Though how he could have fallen in love with such a very improper little hoyden quite escaped logical understanding. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
She cannot altogether be defended, and yet it may be averred that she is not a hoyden, not given to romping nor prone to boxing. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
Expecting either to be made sport of or perhaps propositioned by this illmannered hoyden, he set his face in stem lines of disapproval. From Wordnik.com. [The Soulforge]
"Honor Fitzgerald is a hoyden, then," said Vivian. From Wordnik.com. [The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life] Reference
"She misses no opportunity for that, the hoyden!" put in Mrs. Gantry. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Primitive] Reference
Barbara, who romps in, a merry hoyden, running over with animal spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of the War] Reference
I've been a hoyden; I don't feel as if I'd learned how to be a girl yet, Joe. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canaan] Reference
But she said: "I thought you would regard me as a hoyden of the worst species.". From Wordnik.com. [Taken Alive] Reference
Parker, South African hoyden as she was, voiced the general feeling when she confessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Jolliest School of All] Reference
For all her nineteen years, she yet remained the hoyden, young, undeveloped, and clumsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Pit] Reference
Anne was a sweetly pretty girl, and a very intelligent one, too; but she was a terrible hoyden. From Wordnik.com. [Cornwall's Wonderland] Reference
I've always said that, when it came to repose and self-control, you could make the German Empress look like a hoyden. From Wordnik.com. [Emma McChesney and Co.] Reference
She looked a trifle gauche, it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
I am such a hoyden -- such a romp -- I disgust every one that comes near me; and yet I can't be gentle and sweet like you, if I die. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
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