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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hoiden .
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Examples
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The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This done, the devil, the farmer, and their gangs, hied them to market, and there the farmer presently made good money of his radishes; but the poor devil took nothing; nay, what was worse, he was made a common laughing-stock by the gaping hoidens.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This done, the devil, the farmer, and their gangs, hied them to market, and there the farmer presently made good money of his radishes; but the poor devil took nothing; nay, what was worse, he was made a common laughing-stock by the gaping hoidens.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts, to see what the issue would be of that babbling strife and contention.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts, to see what the issue would be of that babbling strife and contention.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Children of the gutter and sexless haunters of the street corner elbowed comfortable artisans and their wives; there were bareheaded hoidens from the obscurest courts, and work-girls whose self-respect was proof against all the squalor and vileness hourly surrounding them.
Thyrza George Gissing 1880
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
Criticism, Part 4, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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