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.
His second nickname was Homely Abe.
It seemed so modest a request that the principal tree at once agreed to it, and it was settled among them that the plain, homely Ash should furnish what was wanted.
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The peacock impressed me so much, it looked homely when it laid down the ground, but when it stood up and opened the wings, it was so gorgeous.
My mother is a homely woman, but she is kind-hearted, I love her so much.
If we could have looked out through the eyes of these dreamers, we should have seen their tidy little wooden house disappear, and two-story brick with a cast-iron fence in front of it take its place; we should have seen a three-globed gas-chandelier grow down from the parlor ceiling; we should have seen the homely rag carpet turn to noble Brussels, a dollar and a half a yard; we should have seen the plebeian fireplace vanish away and a recherch'e, big base-burner with isinglass windows take posi
