Hoiden

"Hoiden" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Elfride saw her father then, and went away into the wind, being caught by a gust as she ascended the churchyard slope, in which gust she had the motions, without the motives, of a hoiden; the grace, without the self-consciousness, of a pirouetter.

get a scratch, but we always discovered upon examining, that they had been hoidening with the young apprentices.

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