hobbledehoy

• She knew her father's beliefs to be as strong and deep as they were temperately expressed So it happened that Samuel Wesley, halting awkwardly (as a hobbledehoy will) before this slip of a girl and stammering some words meant to comfort her for losing her sister, presently found himself answering strange questions, staring into young eyes which had somehow surprised his own doubts of Dissent, and beyond them into a mind which had come to its own decision and quietly, firmly, invited him to follow. —  Hetty Wesley
• He still had that ultra-youthful figure that partook the traits of the hobbledehoy, arrived at man's stature, but not yet possessing the full manly proportions. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863
• His body seemed possessed of tremendous energy As he paced his room there came into the glory of Peter's thoughts the memory of the Arkwright boy as he sat in the cedar glade brooding on the fallen needles Peter recalled the hobbledehoy's disjointed words as he wrestled with the moral and physical problems of adolescence. —  Birthright A Novel
• She called him a hobbledehoy, said his mother was 'common', and that coming from a home like that, he would never amount to anything or have an education. —  The City of Fire
• She would look upon him as a hobbledehoy He approached the curb again in front of the house, and gazed wistfully at the lighted windows. —  Man on the Box

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