"Home-bound" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rough skies darkened o'er the deep, loud blew the autumn gales; With anxious eyes the fishers' wives watched for the home-bound sails From Gloucester shore, and Rockport crags, lashed by the breakers dread, From cottage doors of Beverly, and rocks of Marblehead. Ah, child, with trembling hand I set my candle at the pane, With fainting heart and choking breath, I heard ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... the washerwomen all astir, and the long brook ran down in whirls of white foam to the waiting sea;—or to the western shores of the island, where we turned to Ariadnes, as we watched departing home-bound vessels from those cliffs whose wave-worn fiords and innumerable sea-birds make ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... hour, when the home-bound children swing the gate with a merry spring, and the mother sits at her work by the open window, with her quiet eye, and the daughter, with the beauty of an untamed soul in her's, looks forth on the woods and meadows, and thinks of ...
— The Bride of Fort Edward • Delia Bacon |
