Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones—like Mistress Blythe here—wouldn't show up so well.
It could not be denied that Captain Jim was a homely man.
I remember telling Matthew, that evening when he brought me to Green Gables, that I never expected to be a bride because I was so homely no one would ever want to marry me—unless some foreign missionary did.
And I noticed another, by the aid of my nostrils; a fragrance of stocks and wallflowers wafted on the air from amongst the homely fruit-trees.
" While he was speaking, Joseph returned bearing a basin of milk-porridge, and placed it before Linton: who stirred round the homely mess with a look of aversion, and affirmed he could not eat it.
The apartment and furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to advantage in knee-breeches and gaiters.
Garth was not at the office, and Fred rode on to his house, which was a little way outside the town—a homely place with an orchard in front of it, a rambling, old-fashioned, half-timbered building, which before the town had spread had been a farm-house, but was now surrounded with the private gardens of the townsmen.
The streets were wide and empty; for two hundred years the place had been dying, but the houses had the homely stateliness of their time.
That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace.
Very different this from the plain benches at the Debating Club, filled with the homely, sympathetic faces of friends and neighbors.
" "How can I be vain when I know I'm homely?
"She's terrible skinny and homely, Marilla.
I'm so homely nobody will ever want to marry me—unless it might be a foreign missionary.
Homely truth is unpalatable.
A cradle is such a nice homely thing to have about a house.
" "And yet," said Smee, "I have often heard you say that hook was worth a score of hands, for combing the hair and other homely uses.
Like the poet Tao Qian, whom he took as his model, Lu depicted the rural countryside in homely detail, evoking its moods and scenes through fresh and precise imagery.
Some regular travelers take their own belongings: like bed sheets, pillowcases and family photos to make them feel like home no matter where they are; some stay for long periods in the same hotel and as a result become very familiar with service and attendants; others may simply put some flowers by the hotel window to make things more homely.
That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life of life it offers has a homely grace.
/William Somerset Maugham That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely grace.
