Her principal charm was a laughing, hoydenish countenance and roguish eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
Angelica had been for some time in her most hoydenish, least human stage, during which she had given up hugging. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Miss Woodhull and Beverly was informed that "such hoydenish actions should be relegated to the uncultured herd.". From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
These hoydenish manners, these ridiculous expeditions, these scampers all over the country, must be renounced forthwith. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
Her manner was boyish, hoydenish at times, and although convent-trained, she was inclined to balk at restraint in any form. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Her elder sister, Madie, appears to have been hoydenish and somewhat uncongenial to a young lady so determined to be "genteel.". From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
It clutched her shawl in hoydenish jest, tore one end of it free from her grasp, and ran its invisible, icy fingers down her neck. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Few knew that this wild, hoydenish, half-mad humour, was only superinduced over her real character, for the purpose of — getting well married. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
Probably the army of hoydenish maidens were not anxious the conflict should cease -- it was far more entertaining than maxims, arithmetic and working texts on samples -- and. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Wally protested once against her hoydenish manners. From Wordnik.com. [The Cricket] Reference
Very romping, was it not? very hoydenish? yes certainly. From Wordnik.com. [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference
Now don't slide down the banisters, or do anything hoydenish. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie's New Friend] Reference
"Do, Julia, carry your flowers off, and do not be so hoydenish," said. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume I] Reference
Flemish Countess talk in the loudest, broadest, most hoydenish style. From Wordnik.com. [The Caged Lion] Reference
Sometimes even its passions, reveries, and hoydenish freaks continue. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
She had emerged from the awkwardness and heaviness of the hoydenish age. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Edge] Reference
Their range, between the extremes of the demure and the hoydenish, is greater. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendships of Women] Reference
It was a hoydenish trick, but Kitty had enacted it for Lord Monckton's benefit. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice in the Fog] Reference
She was a great romp, but she passed the hoydenish period in safety, so will Blue. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's] Reference
They were shouting sorry jests at half a dozen hoydenish women who looked out of the windows of. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
She burst into a loud, hoydenish laugh as Loveday tried to stammer something about a friend of her own. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume] Reference
Or the more hoydenish ones delighted to work in the fields with their brothers, enjoying the outdoor life. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference
'I shall not object to her going to Ivy Lodge sometimes in this way, if it does not make her rough or hoydenish.'. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls] Reference
Every time she works over toward my side of the stage, she makes little hoydenish remarks to me in her native language. From Wordnik.com. [From Place to Place] Reference
"I'm the kid," said she with a musical laugh; "and I'm afraid I haven't quite outgrown my hoydenish tendencies even yet.". From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man] Reference
"'S all right, Switzer," gaily replied a hoydenish lassie; she, the same who had begged Mr. Leary for a sea-pearl souvenir. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Party] Reference
The two looked at each other for a moment, and then the stately woman and the hoydenish girl, with one accord, burst out laughing. From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
There was a vein of humor, and a spirit of "don't care" in Mrs. Carleton, which had once made her independent, and almost hoydenish. From Wordnik.com. [After a Shadow and Other Stories] Reference
Self-willed and thoughtless -- even rude and hoydenish -- we may think her in these days of gentler manners and more guarded speech. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Girls] Reference
Such was the person who, with a habitual emphasis which dowagers found hoydenish and all young men adorable, demanded without prelude. From Wordnik.com. [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference
Over all was now an expression of hoydenish mirth that bespoke the complete forgetfulness of serious things that only comes to young girls. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion's Brood] Reference
Up and down the crowded hall she raced, a hoydenish little tom-boy, drunk with youth, with freedom, and with the pent-up vitality of years. From Wordnik.com. [Calvary Alley] Reference
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