Crossword-Solution: HOIDEN 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Elfride saw her father then, and went away into the wind, being caught by a gust as she ascended the churchyard slope, in which gust she had the motions, without the motives, of a hoiden; the grace, without the self-consciousness, of a pirouetter.

She was a madcap and a hoiden--a wild, hare-brained, fox-hunting Amazon--all that was shocking and unwomanly, but, at the same time, all that was bright, beautiful, entrancing, irresistible.

Your flitting recollection brings back with gushes of exultation the figure of that little, blue-eyed hoiden,--Madge,--as she came with her work to pass the long evenings with Nelly; it calls again the shy glances that you cast upon her, and your _naïve_ ignorance of all the little counter-play that might well have passed between Frank and Nelly.

She is thoughtful;--not breaking out, like the hoiden, flax-haired Nelly, into bursts of joy and singing,--but stealing upon your heart with a gentle and quiet tenderness that diffuses itself throughout the household like a soft zephyr of summer.

When Ellen Bayard was informed that her little deliverer was in the house, she rushed into the parlor like a hoiden school girl, grasped both his hands, kissed both his rosy cheeks, and behaved just as though she had never been to a boarding school in her life.