How To Use Hoyden In A Sentence
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I book a table for four lured by the promise of jazz, cocktails, intrigue, and hoydenish behaviour.
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Father, wrote to me and asked that I come and teach you how to present yourself as a cultured young lady and not the hoyden that you are.
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Just what turrible transgression did you commit, you wee wicked hoyden?
The Devil Wears Plaid
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Her principal charm was a laughing, hoydenish countenance and roguish eyes.
The Titan
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Fitzpiers recognized her as Suke Damson, a hoydenish damsel of the hamlet, who was plainly mistaking him for her lover.
The Woodlanders
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Not only was she too old for that, but her behavior tended to the mature, the managing; she was no irresponsible hoyden.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Few knew that this wild, hoydenish, half-mad humour, was only superinduced over her real character, for the purpose of — getting well married.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Required to range from the hoydenish to the blithe, she rises to it with a performance that is alert, funny and deliciously un-twee.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – review
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A touching passage, one of the piece's several trios, casts the tiny, hoydenish Julie Tice as a childlike outsider yearning to be part of a teen-dream romance.
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Condemn Saxon's references to fairies, gnomes, and medieval life and the use of words like "hoyden" and "ribald" just like you condemned references to poltergeists in the first edition.
Archive 2005-07-03
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Come, where is the little hoyden with the hot temper and a pitchfork in her hand who dares stare down men twice her size when she is angry, eh?
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Much to my disappointment, the girl is turning into a hoyden.
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Both she and her parents think of her as a wild hoyden.
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She plays the hoydenish and headstrong Jo with deep emotion and a commanding singing voice.
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If a girl does not conform, she is defined as a "hoyden" or a "tomboy.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
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In its notice of the play in August 1823, the Mirror of the Stage; or, New Dramatic Censor found Mrs. Weippert (whose initial it gives as "I.") of particular interest: "as a singer, this lady's merits are not above mediocrity; but whenever she is put into characters suited to her talents, such as pert servants, or romping hoyden's [sic], she displays considerable vivacity and spirit.
Cast and Characters
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She plays the pretty hoyden that Conroy vainly longs for.
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I can wait for a docile, biddable, beautiful chit who will worship the ground I walk upon, unlike that spitfire of a hoyden.
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She has her matchmaking work cut out for her when she encounters the pretty but hoydenish Lady Deborah Western.
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If her mother had been alive, she'd likely have earned a scolding for such hoydenish behavior, but her mother had died too long ago for her to remember clearly, her father scarcely seemed to notice what she did, and she had only herself to please.
Phoenix And Ashes
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I would not be married well if I were a blue-stocking hoyden.
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Her manner was boyish, hoydenish at times, and although convent-trained, she was inclined to balk at restraint in any form.
The Financier
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When exactly had the hoydenish young girl he used to tease turned into such a beauty?
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My dear Ida, I wish to encourage no young lady of the hoydenish age of thirteen, in despising nice dressing and pretty looks and manners; or in neglecting to pick up any little hints which she may glean in such things from older friends.
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
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Not only was she too old for that, but her behavior tended to the mature, the managing; she was no irresponsible hoyden.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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God grant I live long enough to buy that Scottish hoyden a decent number of petticoats and at least one pair of slippers.
Much Ado About Marriage
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Kate had changed before his eyes, from the pigtailed hoyden of his youth to a captivating, irresistible woman.
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A part of her noticed, right before she screeched at him like the hoyden Granmama often said she was, that it was the farthest seat in the room from where she was sitting.
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I would rather be a hoyden then a simpering idiot.
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“We want you to be a lady,—a lady above reproach,” he wrote to her, “—a lady always…never hoydenish…”35
Mark Twain
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But Sharp berated Neal over the perceived inaccuracies of their "hoydenish", boisterous dancing, while she in turn accused him of pedantry.
Cecil Sharp and the Morris Men
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Although you acknowledge that "references to demons, poltergeists, and other unpleasant spiritual beings" are a matter of concern in the first edition, you excuse references to fairies, gnomes and medieval life, as well as "the occasional use of words such as hoyden and ribald," in later editions.
07/03/2005 - 07/10/2005
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But is the hoyden mode a constant, or does it sometimes go underground?
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She was presented, as usual, as ‘an eccentric playwright and poetess’, ‘a boisterous hoyden in her youth, and a woman of violent temper in her maturer years’.
