hoydenish

1 For Gerard was a very serious and thoughtful boy, and Sharley, though in outside ways she seemed rather wild and hoydenish, was really very clever and very wise, to be only the age she was.

2 I really began to think that the only hoydenish people I had ever seen were ladies and gentlemen.

3 The square below was crowded with men and boys, and even some hoydenish girls, many in fantastic masks and gaudy dominos, while the tiers of balconies were thronged with eager spectators.

4 Rudeness is of course still frowned upon, and sometimes hoydens behaved in ways that are rude by today’s standards – a girl who pushed another out of her seat at school was a hoyden in 1865.

5 Other riders of her sex might be rough, hoydenish, or masculine.

6 Stately in satin, or simple in gingham, or deliciously hoydenish in fishing-clothes, they challenged his surprised attention.

7 She was primitive enough in her instincts to feel a trifle glad of having retaliated in what her training compelled her to consider a "perfectly hoydenish" manner.

8 Few knew that this wild, hoydenish, half-mad humour, was only superinduced over her real character, for the purpose of—getting well married.

9 But presently Annie was rudely pushed out of her seat by a hoydenish girl, who, arriving late, had stood outside the door till the prayer was over, and then entered unperceived during the subsequent confusion.

10 Her elder sister, Madie, appears to have been hoydenish and somewhat uncongenial to a young lady so determined to be "genteel."

11 These hoydenish manners, these ridiculous expeditions, these scampers all over the country, must be renounced forthwith.

12 In the main I agree with this definition; though I am inclined to think that the mara is, in reality, less hoydenish and more subtle and complex than public opinion would have us believe.

13 This brought the two into conversation; when Jean, with a somewhat hoydenish advance, inquired if "he had yet got any of the lasses to like him as well as his dog?"

14 "Not so very awkward, and not shy at all, but a big overgrown girl, who may one day be an attractive woman, when she is toned down and less crude and hoydenish."

15 “Isn’t it terrible how hoydenish some girls are?” she asked audibly.

16 His manners were hoydenish, but there was nothing of the clown about him.

17 The elder sister, standing apart, had neither eyes nor ears for this bit of hoydenish play.

18 Very romping, was it not? very hoydenish? yes certainly.

19 The mother often stood lost in wonder that out of an ordinary childhood, a barelegged, romping, hoydenish childhood, this marvel should emerge: her’s!

20 She chattered with an abandon that scandalized Barbara; broke in and interrupted every argument with hoydenish trivialities, in one breath, to appeal to Garry the next for refutation.

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