And in some dim way there was a homelikeness about these lands, as if he had known them once long before. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1953)
In the days of their happy summer life, lived in great simplicity and homelikeness, the Crown Princess once wrote, in a little pavilion here, -- ❋ Minerva Brace Norton (N/A)
Mrs. Bailey had given them a few things to add to the homelikeness of their living-rooms, and they were quite comfortably settled, and getting along as happily as could be asked for. ❋ Mabel Hale (N/A)
The "Merry Maid," riding out on the waves near the spot where they had first found refuge, had given their shore almost a homelikeness. ❋ Amy D. V. Chalmers (N/A)
Bosse one will see that the rooms have an air of homelikeness as well as richness. ❋ Lucy Abbot Throop (N/A)
The rough clapboards and beams of the ceiling and walls had never been plastered, and this very crudity seemed somehow to give the room an air of warmth and homelikeness that was very inviting. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
They generally attributed the homelikeness to Lucille, who was dangerously near looking matronly, rather than to Marjorie, who would be more like a firefly than a matron even when she became a grandmother. ❋ Margaret Widdemer (1931)
She had only seen two rooms of the Hewitt house, and that when they were dressed out of all homelikeness, because of the reception. ❋ Margaret Widdemer (1931)
In spite of the simplicity and the homelikeness of the Harvard with eight hundred undergraduates, however, it was large enough to afford the opportunity of meeting men of many different tastes and men from all parts of the country. ❋ Thayer, William R (1919)
The little house might have been placed very comfortably between the walls of the dining-room at the Marcy country house, but there was an indefinable, undeniable air of gracious hospitality and homelikeness about its aspect, and its surroundings gave it an appearance of being ample for the accommodation of any two people not anxious to get away from each other. ❋ Henry Hutt (1912)
It looked bare enough to Georgiana as she showed it to him, but she told herself that there were possibilities in the matter of certain belongings of her own room which could be transferred to give an air of homelikeness to this. ❋ Frances [Illustrator] Rogers (1912)
To scatter trees and bushes over the area defeats the fundamental purpose of the place, -- the purpose to make every part of the grounds lead up to the home and to accentuate its homelikeness. ❋ Unknown (1906)
All that meant merely comfort, homelikeness -- all in a word that was characteristically American -- was wanting. ❋ Robert Herrick (1903)
It was Patty's deft fingers that transformed stiff and formal rooms into apartments of real comfort and homelikeness. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
The great square house was lighted and warmed, and the homelikeness of the place appealed to him as it never had before. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
"Yes," replied her Aunt, "and what is more essential, homey, I have read somewhere, 'A woman's house should be as personal a matter as a spider's web or a snail's shell; and all the thought, toil and love she puts into it should be preserved a part of its comeliness and homelikeness forever, and be her monument to the generations. '" ❋ Edith Matilda Thomas (1889)
The homelikeness of Wellwood was intensified by her intercourse, while there, with English Redford and the descendants of that brother with whom old Mr Pennycuick had been unable to hit it off -- humdrum persons, whose attraction for her lay in their name and blood, and the fact that they could show her the arms and portraits of her ancestors and the wainscotted room in which her father was born. ❋ Ada Cambridge (1885)
There is a pure idyllic loveliness and homelikeness about these stories that is exquisite. ❋ George Willis Cooke (1885)
