Citations:hellion

English citations of hellion

Noun quotations

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1888 — Charles Barker Bradford, Black Bass
the helgramite—known to naturalists as the larvæ of the horned corydalis, locally called "dobsons," "dobsell," "hellion," "crawler," "kill-devil," etc.
1918 — Jack London, The Red One
"Then get up and fight along with me," I said to her. And she did. She was some hellion, there on the top of the world, clawing and scratching tooth and nail–a regular she cat.
1922 — Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
What a silky smooth hellion she was; and so composed and serene, when the cords all down my legs were hurting in sympathy with that man's pain.
1999 — Cory Doctorow, Home Again, Home Again
Not a cute freckled hellion. A miserable little shit who played hide-and-seek with the other miserable little shits in the bat-house, but played it violently

Adjective quotations

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1922 - DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen, Carolina Chansons
Then such a storm came down// That some prayed on that hellion ship, //But he did not— //He was not born to drown.