Lexicographical Neighbors of Homelinesses
Literary usage of Homelinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld (1920)
"The gaunt gray piles, the metallic surfaces, the homelinesses of Moussorgsky,
are more virile, stronger, more resisting than Wagner's music. ..."
2. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881)
"He affected some homelinesses of custom, and amongst them he preserved the habit
of smoking a long churchwarden clay. This one practice was of considerable ..."
3. The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston by Elizabeth Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903)
"... in all the Valley of Virginia; and a more systematically ordered household,
in the homelinesses as well as in the elegancies, was nowhere to be found. ..."
4. Friendly Letters to Girl Friends by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1896)
"There are no strange, charming homelinesses to get away into now, except in Miss
Jewett's and ..."
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