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Hoyden   Listen
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Hoyden  n.  Same as Hoiden.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hoyden" Quotes from Famous Books



... Caroling fly in the languid blue; The while, from many a hid recess, Alert to partake the blessedness, The pouring mites their airy dance pursue. So, after ocean's ghastly gales, When laughing light of hoyden morning breaks, Every finny hider wakes— From vaults profound swims up with glittering scales; Through the delightsome sea he sails, With shoals of shining tiny things Frolic on every wave that flings Against the prow its showery ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville

... lend me wings. I fled away From the loud world which long had troubled me. Oh lightly did I flee when hoyden May Threw her wild mantle on the hawthorn-tree. I left the dusty high-road, and my way Was through deep meadows, shut with copses fair. A choir of thrushes poured its roundelay From every hedge and every thicket there. Mild, moon-faced kine looked on, where in the grass ...
— Poems of To-Day: an Anthology • Various

... pantry bar at midnight, by direction of Eve. Now he came out into the ballroom and mixed affably with the company, even dancing with Harvey Chase's sister once — a slender hoyden, all flushed and dishevelled, with a tireless mania for dancing which seemed to ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers

... I haven't seen you these hundred years;" then seizing her face between her hands, she saluted her in the usual style. "There," at length releasing Mrs Douglas from her gripe—"there's for you! I love you very much; you're neither a fool nor a hoyden; ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier



Words linked to "Hoyden" :   fille, girl, miss, young lady



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