10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOBBLEDEHOYHOOD»
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hobbledehoyhood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Is There Life Without Mother?: Psychoanalysis, Biography, ...
®hobbledehoyhood ̄. whendescribing Eames«s leavinghome (atabout thesame
age his author haddone)in order. ®to. begin his lifeinthebig room of apublic office
in London ̄: They donotcome forth totheworld asApollos,nor shineatall, ...
2
Caseine: being rural meditations
that boys' tiles do n't last for any great length of time, as they do not stand as
much ill-usage as cats ; and parents find out, when it is too late, that tiles are for
manhood and hobbledehoyhood, and young-gentlemanhood — boys scorn to
put ...
3
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope
5 Hobbledehoyhood, however, in Trollope's time referred to a subsequent
moment, a state of tension when the promise of early adolescence seems about
to demand or disappoint realization. “He was a boy, a youth, a hobbledehoy, a
man,” a ...
Carolyn Dever, Lisa Niles, 2011
4
A Concordance to The Devil and the Lady
HOBBLEDEHOYHOOD'S— HOOF 91 Page Act Scene Lin*
HOBBLEDEHOYHOOD'S. smooth-chinn'd Tyro just emerging From
Hobbledehoyhood's twilight, 25 II i 64 HOCUS-POCUS. Thou hocus-pocus of
deformity! 33 II iv 43 HOG. Thou hog ...
Arthur Ernest Baker, 1931
5
The Small House at Allington
In truth, he was emerging from his hobbledehoyhood and entering upon his
youngmanhood, having probably to go through much folly and some false
sentiment in that period of his existence, but still with fair promise of true
manliness beyond, ...
6
An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Has been associated with hobble, butfirst element isprob. hob 1 ,in sense
ofclown.Cf. obs. hobbinoll,rustic (Spenser), hoball, clown (RalphRoysterDoyster),
hobbididance (see flibberdegibbet). Cf. Ger. flegeljahre, hobbledehoyhood,
fromflegel, ...
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Tangled talk [signed T. Talker].
... but this box system is a vague, clumsy, unsatisfactory institution, fit only for the
hobbledehoyhood of society, and blesses neither him that gives nor him that
takes. Shall I say, then, that Christmas-boxes are a relic of semi-barbarous times,
...
William Brighty Rands, 1864
8
Anthony Trollope: The Critical Heritage
The raw, impressible, bashful youth, not brought up in the most refined society, is
capitally conceived, but the delineation is not quite equal to the conception. It is
not till he begins to put off his hobbledehoyhood, and to do battle, like Crosbie, ...
Elizabeth Gaskell Angus Easson. morbidly conscious of the difficulty of finding
subjects of conversation in talking to girls in a state of feminine hobbledehoyhood
. Besides, his thoughts were full of other subjects, which he did not intend to allow
...
Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson, 1987
10
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
The sound of it has always filled me with a kind of pity and respect for the deep
truth that I had, in my silly hobbledehoyhood, to bestow upon one creature who
represented the whole world to me. I have never been so good a man since, as I
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