Homeward Bound

In the fall of the year, the W.H. Willis started up the Yukon with two hundred homeward-bound pilgrims on board. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thousands of foreign troops had left, at that time being homeward-bound Russians, of course. ❋ David Tereshchuk (2011)

Her decks were piled high with freight and baggage, and swarmed with a heterogeneous company of Indians, dogs, and dog-mushers, prospectors, traders, and homeward-bound gold - seekers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've commuted between Rosslyn and Tysons Corner for years and am constantly amazed at the rare cooperation among drivers on the homeward-bound leg as the traffic converges onto eastbound Interstate 66 from the Dulles Toll Road extension. ❋ Post (2010)

The stubborn, reliable muscle of his willpower crumbled, leaving him outraged and a little lost in the wide, wintry land he had trod through and tilled all his life, like a homeward-bound sailor who finds himself upon an unknown sea. ❋ DAVID RABE (2010)

A small AAF support unit arrived soon thereafter, anticipating heavy use of the newly won field by homeward-bound bombers. ❋ Barrett Tillman (2010)

Alexander Mann's homeward-bound hop-pickers, husband and wife, are straight out of Millet compare with the Millet conveniently hung nearby. ❋ Laura Cumming (2010)

It went off the homeward-bound flight pattern he'd punched out about ten minutes after he'd taken off after his New Baltimore visit to Karla Maxfield. ❋ H-M Brown (2010)

Also important is logging which pathogens humans might be carrying at launch, so that if someone gets sick on the way back from a theoretical future trip to Mars, NASA can quickly determine whether it's a garden-variety human bug or some new kind of Martian flu turning a homeward-bound space vehicle into a "plague ship." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Later, the remarkable story of little Malik, once near death, now homeward-bound thanks to some American doctors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A stream of recent data has indicated that both skilled and unskilled immigrants from Latin America and elsewhere are homeward-bound due to the U.S. economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yesterday, Matt Drudge revealed these facts, and within 24 hours Harry was homeward-bound. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Five days later he was aboard a ship and homeward-bound for France.6 ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

friend 1: "Hey what took [ya'll] so long" friend 2: "Well we got half way here and had to turn around because (insert friend here) had to shit so we had to [go all the way] back to his house!" Friend 1: "man he's such a [homeward bound shitter]!" ❋ RustyNail84 (2011)