These garments are not "becoming" to the little girl, and they are a distinct hindrance to her hoydenish activities.

The handsome, rosy face of a strapping tavern wench would not have startled him, but he was not gazing upon a bouncing serving maid or the hoydenish daughter of a prosperous innkeeper.

A moment later, still clutching Dick's comforting card, she ran in on the stage, swinging her sun-bonnet from its green ribbons with hoydenish grace, chanting a gay little lilt of an Irish melody.

For the authenticity of the former he now cared not a jot, and he threw the book aside vowing that its hoydenish heroine was unbearable

The English residents soon let her understand, by ceasing to frequent her palace, that even at Naples there were certain laws of dress which could not be trampled underfoot in this hoydenish manner.

Though not destitute of womanly qualities, she was more remarkable for hoydenish ones; and her tastes were peculiar and varied.

You have put me to shame many a time by your hoydenish tricks; but I bore with you, believing that your madcap follies were at least harmless.