"Homeward" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spoke he gently took the girl's hand, and with a perfectly civil "Good-evening, sir," turned with her homeward. ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... a little later she found Robert Roblin Watson, with resolute heart but hanging head, waiting for her on the back step. What passed between them neither of them ever told, but in a very few minutes Robert Roblin ran gaily homeward, happy in heart, shriven of his sin, and with one little spot on his cheek which tingled with rapture. Better still, he went, like a man, and made his peace ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung
... deepest blue, calm and unruffled as the light that shone in Amy's eyes. Hours of each twenty-four Armstrong had been the constant companion, at first of the trio, then of the two—for Mr. Prime had found a kindred spirit in a veteran merchant homeward bound from China—then of one alone; for Miss Prime had found another interest, and favor in the eyes of a young tourist paying his first visit to our shores, and so it happened that before the voyage, ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King
... mind he did not care to show himself in the village, and went homeward by a roundabout track behind a high hedge and across a pasture. Here he beheld scores of coupled earthworms lying half their length on the surface of the damp ground, as they always did in such weather at that ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... the lovers, and makes them promise upon oath that they will remain faithful to each other under every temptation. He immediately after transports them to the port of Ascalon, from which they are to sail homeward. Oberon now puts their constancy to the proof. Puck conjures up the nymphs and the spirits of the air, who raise an awful tempest. Hueon's ship sinks; the lovers are shipwrecked. While Hueon seeks for {247} help, Rezia is captured by the pirates, and Hueon, returning to save ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley
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