Esclairmonde laughed good-humouredly, partly in courtesy to her hoyden mistress, but partly at the burning, blushing indignation she beheld in the artless face of Alice Montagu.
She dared to plead her foolish vows against my brother Boemond, fled with that other hoydenof Hainault, and now defies me by coming here.
The hoyden hussy was wedged between them, disgraced and bound for the sequestered rural shades where impecunious painters were not.
The straight, slim, boy-like lines of the hoyden girl have evolved into the curves and rounded suppleness and beauties of a woman.
Unless, that is, thishoyden phase is rendered permanent in her by masculine training.
You were a sad little hoyden in the old days, but now that you have passed eighteen you will be glad to settle down, won't you, dear, and behave like the woman you are.
All the world is on the wing; Love comes laughing up the valleys, Hand in hand withhoyden Spring.
It was the first she had heard of the invitation, and it stung her to think that Lady Glendower thought her too much of a hoyden to invite her with the sister who was but one year older.
Helen Rushton was truly fond of the hoyden girl and it was only from a desire to get the others' opinion that caused her to make the above remarks.
The laughing, romping hoyden was capable of sound sensible argument, her character was made up of opposites; and Helen Rushton, clever in many things, was almost baffled.
There is no effort in anything that she does; and when she assumes the character of the hoyden it is in the finest spirit of refined and disciplined fun.
Reggie Beauchamp nodded, really more interested in the sprightly hoyden he was talking to than in the subject of their conversation.
It scarcely seemed becoming that so young a creature as this lovely hoyden should so move a man.
Well, if this is a lord, I think Hoyden has luck on her side, in troth.
And, do you hear, run away to nurse; bid her let Miss Hoyden loose again.
I began to feel deficient in accomplishments; but I was not sufficiently a hoyden to follow their example, and could only perform the part of an admiring spectator.
In the meantime, I was fast regaining the blooming, hoyden appearance most natural to me; and Aunt Henshaw continued to write glowing accounts of my improvement.
I do not think I was an ordinary child; and notwithstanding my hoydennature had a very thoughtful turn of mind.
Sylvia's advice struck me as being very sensible, and I therefore resolved to act upon it, and endeavor to make them consider me quite a different character from the hoyden Amy.
But on Bobby she turned the full brightness of her old hoyden grin.
Belinda was a triumphantly beautiful hoyden of sixteen, despite a slight powdering of freckles and a tiny silvery scar through one raven black eyebrow, the result of trying to equal a boy cousin on the trapeze when she was nine years old.
Some of the witty tricks of the widow O'Connor, or the hoyden Miss Callwells!
He dismounted and entered a cottage by the roadside, and when she reached it the door was shut, Brownie's bridle hung on the paling, and Bessie was letting Miss Hoyden crop the sweet grass on the bank while she waited.
Bessie, quite unconscious, reined in Miss Hoyden under the shadow of a spreading tree to wait while the doctor paid his visit in-doors.
The Hoyden (1894) Tauchnitz edition The Hoyden reviewed in the Scotsman : "A clever, sprightly story.
The vision of hoyden Mary, concrete as Audrey and her turnip, was thenceforth one of the character studies on her comedy stage.
III Sir Tomas from his noblesse halle Did trend his path a somer's daye, And to ye hoyden he did call And these ffull evill words did say: "O wolde you weare a silken gown And binde your haire with ribands gay?
