Citations:hellion

Noun quotations


 * 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


 * 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.