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He’s got a real fire … it feels really homely
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lacked that homely touch
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Athens is a giant contradiction: town and country, east and west, hectic and homely
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Outside it was small homely cottage
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In the ancient state, the little trade that was stirring, and the few homely and coarse manufactures that were carried on, required but very small capitals
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His smile lit his homely face and he attempted to say something to me, but no sounds emerged
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He was a small, homely, nerdy looking man with a high annoying voice
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The dining area was integrated with the kitchen; snug and homely
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There was every type of nun, some small, some efficient looking, some tall, some homely, some beautiful
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his head slightly, to see that homely bottle of vodka resting innocently on its side beside the trash can
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Not exactly homely, but somewhere to stay, and cheap of
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It all looked so homely
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also admired him for his homely wisdom and the optimism he projected in his songs
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For there, in the homely night,
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I blame the euphoria of release after the third and final encore and the chance of a few more minutes in the company of the perfect male for agreeing to accompany the hand-holding homely lass upstairs where we discussed her plight as a ‘Coloured’ person in South Africa while drinking more instant coffee
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It was a horror story, but with a hokey faux Stephen King style homely voice
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travelling back to her childhood, as though she was trying to find some solace thinking of happier, homely, more secure times in the bosom of her family
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They both shared computer classes and she was attractive in a homely sort of way
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Before their engagement both he and his bride, a homely and somewhat excitable spinster several years his senior, had agreed that at their time of life they did not want children
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The house looked very jolly and homely
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Although the face frightened her, for a moment she felt a stab of relief that Angela too had been homely most of her life
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For you see, Clarice was formerly homely herself, and now looked as though she were a glorious swan or multifaceted peacock
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“He is awake!” shouted a homely looking woman in a nurses’ uniform
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He chose homely types who passed as virgins because of their looks and brought them to Alberto who kept them ‘high’ and happy
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to a very homely and small restaurant, a few blocks away
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house but it was homely
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Dressing slowly, he then made his way downstairs to the kitchen, lead by the aromatic smells coming from the homely kitchen
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Two rather regal looking women turned to see who had entered the establishment and turned away just about as quickly when they saw the homely misses enter, something Angela had become accustomed to in her rather humble life
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There were exquisitely subtle undertones to this homely miasma; the smell of hookblossom, the smell of bark, the smell of his own sweat even, all seemed to trigger deep memories that bred a sense of familiarity to make his stomach fuzz as though he had just downed a glass of warm brandy
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He gestured for his homely waitress to freshen his now empty
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There was a cosy, homely atmosphere to the small room
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homely again, given time
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Four homely girls sang, and four beautiful girls held silent
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When she got to the top of the staircase she was surprised to see that the deck was as homely and welcoming as a family home
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An estate agent might have described it as a homely cave, but it was more
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frigid characters and icy atmospheres becomes friendly and homely whenever this word is being phrased out
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The word of `Peace` might have nowadays lost its former graceful qualities and has been altered and changed out into just plain words of `hi` or `hello` but the ingredients are still effective when frigid characters and icy atmospheres becomes friendly and homely whenever this word is being phrased out
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homely, well cared for, she must have loved it here
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excited and homely, it felt good
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‘Far removed from their shadowing spouses, and ensconced with their eager colleagues, aren’t they clearly cut out for liaisons? Besides, won’t the atmosphere at the workplace afford woman more emotional closeness with her doting colleagues, than with her man in the homely monotony? More than anything else, isn’t it their compulsiveness to dress well that makes women seek paramours prepared to foot the bills? How many of them undress in the private arena only to cut a figure for themselves in the public domain
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On her way home though, Roopa wondered as to how to bring about a homely union with Raja Rao
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‘A homely office really,’ she said in relief
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God help us to love children for homely joys
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homely needs were all taken care of by her
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The homely nurse doth all she can,
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Here's Vicki groaning in the throes of a relapse because someone has written that she met her late lover at a party and that he ate only soup,--here she is overcome by this picture which she translates as a hankering in spite of everything after her, and wanting to write to him, and ready to console him and crying her eyes all red again, and no longer taking the remotest interest in _Comus_ or in those frequent addresses of mine to her on Homely Subjects to which up to yesterday she listened with such flattering respect; and here are you writing me the most melancholy letters, longer and drearier than any letters ever were before, filled with yearnings after something that certainly is not Miss Cheriton—but beyond that certainty I can make out nothing
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Their cheer is certainly homely, but that doesn't make them like it, and they never call down blessings upon it with moist uplifted eyes
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Why, it was as necessary, he declared, his fine face aglow, if one was to work well and add one's cheerful contribution to the world's happiness, as a nourishing and sufficient breakfast--the congregation thrilled at this homely touch--and to numb a human being's powers of cheerful contribution by punishment was _waste_
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I had read about this bar in the tourist guide book and it sounded very homely
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Her house had a real homely feeling,
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It was more homely in the big old house
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The house wasn"t homely at all, it was quite
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Tom convinced himself so much of the support of the village people that he soon felt quite homely on the comfortable chair
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She wasn't as old as I expected, only a little older than Celia I'd guess, but more homely
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with a homely love and warmth from around the hearth of
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Though she'd always ski in her homely way,
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This work is an interestingand remarkably poetic description of the homely lifeand
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swallow the homely comet of
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His lies are not of the highly imaginative sort that liars in fiction commonly indulge in; like Falstaff's, they resemble the father that begets them; they are simple, homely, plump lies; plain working lies, in short
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They are, in short, peasants, plain homely people, without any taint of disreputable blood, and, as the saying is, old rusty Christians, but so rich that by their wealth and free-handed way of life they are coming by degrees to be considered gentlefolk by birth, and even by position; though the wealth and nobility they thought most of was having me for their daughter; and as they have no other child to make their heir, and are affectionate parents, I was one of the most indulged daughters that ever parents indulged
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Pleas'd with the homely woman as well as the handsome,
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He was a homely man, but they thought his face quite heavenly when he smiled and said, with a fatherly look at them, "Yes, my dears, I think the little girl will pull through this time
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She felt proud to know that he was an honored Professor in Berlin, though only a poor language-master in America, and his homely, hard-working life was much beautified by the spice of romance which this discovery gave it
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' If I have not reckoned wrong thou hast given thyself over a thousand lashes; that is enough for the present; 'for the ass,' to put it in homely phrase, 'bears the load, but not the overload
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And no one thought of the homely expedient of dropping a simple, unpretending rope-fender between the destructive stern and the defenceless side!
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' But this is not so much as saying, in homely phrase,
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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 that he could not eat it
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Thatcher is a homely woman, but Reagan considers her “warm, feminine, gracious, and intelligent”—so much so that he will take the unprecedented step of gushing about the British leader to Nancy Reagan when this meeting ends in two hours
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An air of homely comfort pervaded the room; the atmosphere was warm, and the fire blazed cheerfully over the whitened hearth
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This was my homely thought, as I contemplated the box-tree
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After that, when we went in to supper, the place and the meal would have a more homely look than ever, and I would feel more ashamed of home than ever, in my own ungracious breast
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He uttered the metaphor with a certain homely energy and,
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Those homely recipes are often the best: strawberries for the teeth: nettles and rainwater: oatmeal they say steeped in buttermilk
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He would be tall with broad shoulders (she had always admired tall men for a husband) with glistening white teeth under his carefully trimmed sweeping moustache and they would go on the continent for their honeymoon (three wonderful weeks!) and then, when they settled down in a nice snug and cosy little homely house, every
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There might have been lapses of an erring father but he wanted to turn over a new leaf and now, when at long last in sight of the whipping post, to lead a homely life in the evening of his days, permeated by the affectionate surroundings of the heaving bosom of the family
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The queer suddenly things he popped out with attracted the elder man who was several years the other's senior or like his father but something substantial he certainly ought to eat even were it only an eggflip made on unadulterated maternal nutriment or, failing that, the homely Humpty Dumpty boiled
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She was dark-haired and dark-skinned, with plain, homely features, young but with a rounded
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Without his scrap-books, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man
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Then I went toward the entrance of the homely cement block building that had once been a lightbulb factory and was now a club called the Socket
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It was big enough for a family with seven children, although in the years since she had acquired the place nothing had been done to decorate it or make it homely
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In the homely Alpine villages or in the lonely mountain passes, I could tell by his quick glancing eyes and his sharp scrutiny of every face that passed us, that he was well convinced that, walk where we would, we could not walk ourselves clear of the danger which was dogging our footsteps
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His appearance was very homely and benevolent, short and stout, forty-five years old, perhaps, with a round, good-humoured face, burned brown with the tropical sun, and shot with a thousand wrinkles
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The cat (if one may call so fearful a creature by so homely a name) was not more than ten
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And they kept saying: ‘Excuse our homely ways
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The homely English bee buzzed everywhere around us
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The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill
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All the homely,
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Thus it threw shadows of these obscure and homely figures every evening with as much care over each contour as if it had been the profile of a court beauty on a palace wall; copied them as diligently as it had copied Olympian shapes on marble façades long ago, or the outline of Alexander, Caesar, and the Pharaohs
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A portion was divided off at one end by a curtain, behind which was his bed, the outer part being furnished as a homely sitting-
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The traveller's ambition to tell was not theirs, and, with dumb impassivity, they dismissed experiences which they did not value for the immediate incidents of this homely upland—the trivial movements of the two girls in disturbing the clods with their hackers so as to uncover something or other that these visitants relished as food
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The view was godlike, cinematic: the City as he’d dreamed it from his homely hometown seven hundred miles away
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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
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The houses reminded me of hopeful homely girls on a Friday night, hopping bars in spangly tops, packs of them where you assumed at least one might be pretty, but none were, and never would be
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Pretty girls were nice to homely guys
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"I doubt if I looked as queer as you!" she retorted with homely force
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The exclamation was homely, but it revealed a real acceptance of my further proof of what, in the bad time—for there had been a worse even than this!— must have occurred
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I can't name the exquisite pathos of the contradiction given to such a speech by such a speaker; I only know that the next instant I heard myself throw off with homely force: "Stuff and nonsense!" But the next after that I must have sounded stern enough
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The spirit of prayer seemed to purify her and refine those homely features and make them luminous
