Had they been boys, they would have been called hobbledehoys; but, being Bob Whites, they were known as squealers, and as such they felt very mannish and ambitious to be independent; but, nevertheless, they still liked to huddle together at nightfall and talk over the day's doings, close to, if not under, the mother's wing. ❋ Margaret Devereux (N/A)
Italy was scourged by its hobbledehoys in black shirts; Russia was ruled by the blue-chinned Young; Ireland was devastated by hooligan patriots; presently ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Such hobbledehoys receive but little petting, unless it be from ❋ Unknown (2004)
And now it had gone to Bearside whom Nickem remembered as a junior to himself when they were both young hobbledehoys at Norrington, — a dirty, blear-eyed, pimply-faced boy who was suspected of purloining halfpence out of coat-pockets. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This boy, starting tiny and growing huge, would one day become a legend in the minds of his minions, a hero in the hearts of his hobbledehoys, the fanciest lad of them all: Springheel Jack! ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nevertheless, they spoke of him occasionally with some little dash of merriment — as is not unusual with pretty girls who have hobbledehoys among their intimate friends, and who are not themselves unaccustomed to the grace of an Apollo. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The three hobbledehoys, had it been a weekday and they in working clothes, might have felt free to act, but the stiffness of black was upon them and they simply moved to the corner by ❋ Unknown (2003)
'I think it's essential that he learns to dance,' said Margo, 'or else he'll grow up into one of these awful tongue-tied hobbledehoys.' ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)
'Not to church now, but I must be off to Bar-end, where I have my class of hobbledehoys from the farms.' ❋ Florence Wilford (N/A)
Mohawks, -- whelps of the squirarchy and hobbledehoys of the universities, -- Squire Gawkies and Squire Westerns and Tony Lumpkins, ❋ Various (N/A)
In those days, while we were still hobbledehoys, she pleased us the more that she had, with the precocity of her sex, quite outstripped us where all subtle social forces are concerned. ❋ Various (N/A)
Bluebell, like most Canadians, had had plenty of early admiration from hobbledehoys, who made honest, though ungainly, love to her; but her heart would as soon have been touched by an amorous Orson as by these youthful tyros in the art. ❋ Mrs. George Croft Huddleston (N/A)
Men and hobbledehoys stumbled off in hot haste, pursued by the victorious handful under George. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
At the back were the people whom our weekly winter efforts were really intended to benefit — the louts, mutts and hobbledehoys of our own village and the neighbouring hamlets. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- (1933)
Brodnyx and Pedlinge compelled to holiness -- all those wicked old men who wouldn't go to church, but expected their Christmas puddings just the same, those hobbledehoys who loafed against gate-posts the whole of ❋ Sheila Kaye-Smith (1921)
Poetry is not a formula which a thousand flappers and hobbledehoys ought to be able to master in a week without training, and the mere fact that it seems to be now practised with such universal ease is enough to prove that something has gone amiss with our standards .... ❋ Unknown (1920)
Poetry is not a formula which a thousand flappers and hobbledehoys ought to be able to master in a week without any training, and the mere fact that it seems to be now practised with such universal ease is enough to prove that something has gone amiss with our standards .... ❋ Thomas Stearns (1920)
In a few decades babies will be born immune to any faith or fear in regard to the future, but meanwhile it is well to examine closely our present difficulties in passing from immortality to annihilation, and perhaps to discover a little help for hobbledehoys. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Good as it is, it would be all the better for an alliance with our family, but I shall disown you at once if you marry one of those hobbledehoys. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The idle of all hobbledehoys [hobbledehoys = gawky adolescent boy] ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)
And there he stood, his [hobbledehoy] frame clashing with the elegence of the room.
[Steve Nash]? I bet he was the epitome of a hobbledehoy when he was a youth!
"I'm so awkward" [Chriss] Griffin (not skinny enough to be a hobbledehoy, but a the greatest quote without a doubt) ❋ Peppermr (2006)
The hobbledehoy [hurts] her [knees] every [night]. ❋ Slushy Pee (2017)
"[yo that] dude is such a [hobbledehoy]"
'yeah man, he's [so weird]" ❋ Y·n·o·l·a (2020)
