hobbledehoyhood

Eames, such as he might become when the period of his hobbledehoyhood should have altogether passed away.

The Small House at Allington 2004

Crosbie as a suitor, and would herself have preferred John Eames, with all the faults of his hobbledehoyhood on his head.

The Small House at Allington 2004

But he was young — hardly as yet out of his hobbledehoyhood — and he would easily recover this blow, remembering, and perhaps feeling to his advantage, some slight touch of its passing romance.

The Small House at Allington 2004

In truth his hobbledehoyhood was dropping off from him, as its old skin drops from a snake.

The Small House at Allington 2004

Such being the case, must we not acknowledge that John Eames was still floundering in the ignorance of his hobbledehoyhood?

The Small House at Allington 2004

He was conscious of his hobbledehoyhood-of that backwardness on his part in assuming manhood which had rendered him incapable of making himself acceptable to Lily before she had fallen into the clutches of

The Small House at Allington 2004

African from my observations is just what happens to the European, namely, when he passes out of childhood, he goes into a period of hobbledehoyhood.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Doubtless some papas would prefer the Virginian bill of fare; but then, they must remember that the republican lads go to college to learn something, whereas many papas send their first-born hopes to Oxford and Cambridge to save themselves trouble, and to keep the youths out of mischief during the awkward period of life yclept "hobbledehoyhood."

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

There is a stage of national hobbledehoyhood and Australia has not yet grown out of it.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

This occurs especially during the period of hobbledehoyhood, during which boys take pleasure above all in rough sports.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900