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Definition of Homecomings
1. homecoming [n] - See also: homecoming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homecomings
Literary usage of Homecomings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Joscelyn Cheshire: A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Sara Beaumont Kennedy (1901)
"homecomings. " The bugles sound the swift recall; Cling, clang 1 backward all!
Home, and good night I " — EG STEDMAN. ar was over; the drums lay unbeaten, ..."
2. Joscelyn Cheshire: A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Sara Beaumont Kennedy (1901)
"homecomings. " The bugles sound the swift recall; Cling, clang ! backward all!
Home, and good night! " — BC STEDMAN. ..."
3. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Remembering the homecomings is one of the things that has always made Mrs.
Hunter glad to get back. . . . Bingo Hill is the first of the girls to come ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"There were never any real homecomings or junketings. Everything was so stiff and
starched. Still, I had a good time at school and the 'Varsity, ..."
5. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"And it was one of our happiest homecomings, as will be seen. For, the long voyage
ended, we looked for another child in March—a child love-beckoned, ..."
6. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"If you shrink at thought of night, and winter, and the late homecomings from the
banquet and the lights and laughter through the deserted streets— a ..."
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