It is to be feared that there is some truth in this homely illustration, and Miss Miranda's dread as to her future responsibilities had some foundation, though not of the precise sort she had in mind.
It is to be feared that there is some truth in this homely illustration, and Miss Miranda's dread as to her future responsibilities had some foundation, though not of the precise sort she had in mind.
You do look so pretty in pink and red, Rebecca, and so homely in drab and brown!
This is all for now about homely Old Mr.
It tickled Buster Bear so to think that little homely Old Mr.
Always he had thought pollywogs just homely, wriggling things, not the least bit interesting, but since he had discovered how proud of them were Grandfather Frog and Old Mr.
"Never again will I call anybody homely and ugly until I know all about him," said Peter, which was a very wise decision.
The idea of any one so homely, almost ugly-looking, as Mr.
On land he is a rather clumsy-looking fellow and really homely.
Less intimidated by all this unexampled luxury than she was reassured by the atmosphere of combined and homely effort, the lowliness of several of her companions, and the kind, simple face of Mrs.
Let us be honest, and cut, as heretofore, from the homely web of truth.
"Living costs little," said I to myself, "in this economical town of Villette, where people are more sensible than I understand they are in dear old England—infinitely less worried about appearance, and less emulous of display—where nobody is in the least ashamed to be quite as homely and saving as he finds convenient.
It appeared as if he could not be brought to accept the homely truth, and take me for what I was: men, and women too, must have delusion of some sort; if not made ready to their hand, they will invent exaggeration for themselves.
Home did not lift his eyes from his breakfast-plate for about two minutes, nor did he speak; perhaps he had not caught the words—perhaps he thought that on a confession of that nature, politeness would interdict comment: the Scotch are proverbially proud; and homely as was Mr.
It might be myself, or it might be my homely mourning habit, that elicited this mark of contempt; more likely, both.
"Here on the moor we are homely folk and do not wait for formal introductions.
" "That's because you are so homely that no one wants you for a dinner when he can find anything else," said Peter Rabbit, who had come up from the friendly old brier patch.
"I'm so afraid, Cecily, that I'm going to be homely all my life," said poor Sara with a tremble in her voice.
At the door stood Malcolm Ramsay, a homely neighbour youth who had been courting Ursula in his clumsy way ever since she grew up.
It always seemed to me that if I had been homely Dick would never have thought of me.
