Never had Janice seen the hobbledehoy act so strangely!. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Janice, however, never lost her temper with this hobbledehoy cousin. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Even then his friends saw the germs of the statesman in the lank, homely, crack-voiced hobbledehoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Dhiab of Tafileh — that jerky, incomplete hobbledehoy — gossiped the news instantly through to Kerak. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
English boys are emerging from the public schools, and are still in the hobbledehoy stage of their formation. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
“A black-haired, red-cheeked, long-legged hobbledehoy of 26, though not looking or seeming near that age,” he wrote.12. From Wordnik.com. [Louisa May Alcott] Reference
Nights of Villjamur is an occasionally hobbledehoy, sometimes rich and atmospheric Fenrir-Devouring-The-Sun Dying Earth fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
What availed my beautiful plum-colored velvets and lavender satin, lace, and buckles, if I only succeeded in being an awkward hobbledehoy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Many of the attributes of a hobbledehoy had fallen from him, and even Lily Dale might now probably acknowledge that he was no longer a boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
‘This is a boy, or a youth, or a lad, or a young man, or a hobbledehoy, or whatever you like to call him, of eighteen or nineteen, or thereabouts,’ said Ralph. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
It, too, has reached the hobbledehoy height and has all the signs which mark that elevation, the brief aspirations, the splendid unformed hopes, and the touchy irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
I take it that it isn't exactly the hobbledehoy sort. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference
A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
A half-wild-looking hobbledehoy boy of fifteen years also joined the group. From Wordnik.com. [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference
He was tall and active, light and lithe in gesture, not a clumsy hobbledehoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Ruskin] Reference
I feel that I have been in fault in giving such prominence to a hobbledehoy, and that. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
But what I can't understand is why you should be so sorry for a hobbledehoy like that. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04] Reference
He looked frankly what he was -- a hobbledehoy -- though he made great efforts to seem grown up. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
In him the hobbledehoy period had been unusually prolonged, and strangers at court were astonished to see. From Wordnik.com. [The Eve of the French Revolution] Reference
The bandages and false hair flew across the passage into the bar, making a hobbledehoy jump to avoid them. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
At fourteen and a quarter Gwen Gascoyne was at a particularly difficult and hobbledehoy stage of her development. From Wordnik.com. [The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story] Reference
'I never heard such a thing -- giving such a hobbledehoy native of this place such an introduction to me as he did. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Farrel, a male of the Farrel brood, a hobbledehoy, good-looking enough but with a Dublin accent and a cheeky manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Girl] Reference
Besides, the best have to get through the hobbledehoy age, and that's the very time they need most patience and kindness. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
In front of these 'pictures,' a lank hobbledehoy stood lost in reverie, while two young girls nudged each other and jeered. From Wordnik.com. [His Masterpiece] Reference
For instance, one day one of those boys who was passing into the hobbledehoy stage of life, came with a perplexed air, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers] Reference
And he had a younger sister who loved him dearly, who had no idea that he was a hobbledehoy, being somewhat of a hobbledehoy herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
Since Wilfrid had ceased to be a hobbledehoy, it would have become him to put a little more of the courtier into his manner towards her. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
Very likely an English hobbledehoy similarly appealed to would have blushed, giggled, and got rid of the stranger as quickly as possible. From Wordnik.com. [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference
Calvinistic-Methodist Chapel; there was the mother, a very grim - looking female; and the son, a nondescript hobbledehoy with goggle-eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference
Why she should leave all her property to d'Ardeche, no one could tell, unless it was that she felt his rather hobbledehoy tendencies towards. From Wordnik.com. [Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories] Reference
Following them was a half-grown hobbledehoy boy, strong enough to have packed an ox, who was doing his heavy share by carrying a little glass vase. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror] Reference
He chanced to jump aboard, from one side; just as the guide's hobbledehoy son was hoisting a heavy and cumbersome duffle bag into the tonneau, from the other. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
Since Jim had shown his ability to administer a knockout to that angry chauffeur, he seemed to this hobbledehoy peculiarly a proper person for athletic confidences. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Mouse] Reference
He had acknowledged to himself, in some indistinct way, that he was no more than a hobbledehoy, awkward, silent, ungainly, with a face unfinished, as it were, or unripe. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
When I compare the hobbledehoy of one or two and twenty to some finished Apollo of the same age, I regard the former as unripe fruit, and the latter as fruit that is ripe. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
Such observations, however, as I have been enabled to make in this matter have led me to believe that the hobbledehoy is by no means the least valuable species of the human race. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
If our house is in Baker or Wimpole street, we must certainly have a manservant in sombre raiment to open our door, with a hobbledehoy or a buttons to run his superior's messages. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
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