A girl who behaves in a boyish manner.
1 And turn the skittish hoyden to a servant of the State.
2 She was never in earnest with me-justa hoyden asking to be won.
3 Miss Matilda Murray was a veritable hoyden , of whom little need be said.
4 How can I when you're running all over the camp like some hoyden ?
5 And this hoyden had talked as though she took an interest in Austen!
6 Saies: Madge, ye hoyden , do you know how that you once despighted me?
7 Then, from the ungainly hoyden had been evolved this charming, delicate and lovely creature.
8 He had engaged a hoyden , and she was by way of becoming a lady.
9 Zora, child of the swamp, was a heathen hoyden of twelve wayward, untrained years.
10 Soe Madge, ye hoyden , kneelt & prayed that Godde sholde send her Robin backe.
11 Some of the witty tricks of the widow O'Connor, or the hoyden Miss Callwells!
12 As the girl took her seat at the piano she looked everything but a hoyden .
13 You see me looking like a brainless hoyden , I sing, I jest, I talk slang.
14 But at first I was just an overgrown hoyden , and joined Sasha in playing the fool.
15 She felt the long repressed, half-forgotten tomboy, hoyden Brinnaria surging up in her and gaining mastery.
16 It was the sudden, merry peal of a big girl, still scarcely more than a hoyden .
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