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But in an instant she recovered something of her old hoidenish composure; and in that moment she remembered, too, how he had seemed to slight her of late, and her pride rebelled hotly.

From Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover by Libbey, Laura Jean

Sir Everard certainly was very sorry for that hoidenish Miss Hunsden.

From The Baronet's Bride by Fleming, May Agnes

"She's so hoidenish," observed Anna, to her sister-in-law, when they came to the name of Aileen.

From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore

Give up one hoidenish way at a time; that will be easier than trying to do all at once, you know.

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Yechton, Barbara, [pseud.]

You were always so wild and hoidenish in your playing.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various