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Examples
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"Hoity-toity!" muttered Aunt Olivia's Duty, and slipped past with the stream.
Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell
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"Hoity-toity," answered Malvolia rudely; "you mean that you only baked enough for your own personal friends."
The Firelight Fairy Book Henry Beston 1928
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"Hoity-toity! who's to prevent?" asked the second speaker, turning a look of disdain on Hetty.
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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Hoity-toity! this was putting a fuse to gunpowder.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916
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Hoity-toity and white-faced and late, all at once, ain't you?
The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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"Hoity-toity," returned my aunt, who had by then succeeded in getting her head-gear safe within; "the fashion, yes until a prettier comes along."
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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"Hoity-toity," returned my aunt, who had by then succeeded in getting her head-gear safe within; "the fashion, yes until a prettier comes along."
Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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"Hoity-toity," returned my aunt, who had by then succeeded in getting her head-gear safe within; "the fashion, yes until a prettier comes along."
Richard Carvel — Volume 02 Winston Churchill 1909
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"Hoity-toity!" said the easy-going grandmother, sitting down to her task, for she perceived some wholesome discipline was necessary.
The Girl from Montana Grace Livingston Hill 1906
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O'Hara's consciousness; and O'Hara said: "Hoity-toity ...!"
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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