He walks abroad through the thoughts of men, and the Iliad and Shakspeare are tame to him, who hears the rude but homely incidents of the road from every traveller.
Sometimes our fate grows too homely and familiarly serious ever to be cruel.
In colony-planting the problem is fundamentally an economic one, and economic problems are solved by coarse and homely means.
Literary considerations should have some weight in deciding how fully an episode shall be treated, unless the historian is content to perform the homely service of a purveyor of the crude ore of knowledge.
There was nothing particular to mark a house, homelyenough in its exterior.
The fees are much smaller than in England, and contrivances for the most homely details have thus been protected.
The homely geniality and hospitality that we had met with during our sojourn in both islands had made the few weeks spent there full of pleasant recollections.
Another said, when we were expressing our appreciation of all the kindness we were receiving, "We are very homely folks out here; but only too glad to give any one from the old country a hearty welcome.
To compare small things with great in a homely illustration: man alters from time to time his instruments or machines, as new circumstances or conditions may require and his wit suggest.
A plate of deep-red apples on the table sent forth a homely fragrance, and they were almost as beautiful as a vase of roses would have been.
In the performing of these homely tasks he found a kind of comfort.
The same remark applies to that class of simple, household, homely passion, which belongs to the early ballad poetry.
So Mark waited patiently in the homely little back parlour, where he had prepared his work as a schoolboy in the old days, where he had smoked his first cigar in his first Cambridge vacation.
Vincent passed out, too, out on the broad white road, and down the hill to his homely Gasthaus.
The Accademia has good examples of their work, but to appreciate fully these homely and sympathetic artists one must travel to their native city Bassano, in the beautiful hill country north of Venice.
He was bent by time, but his brilliant eye and his flowing gray locks gave a certain refinement to his appearance, beyond that which his homelygarments would warrant.
There is something in the lonely farmhouse, surrounded with its little garden, and its homely implements of labor, that instantly touches our sympathy.
Somehow, the morbid fancies were gone; she was keenly alive; the homely real life of this huckster had fired her, touched her blood with a more vital stimulus than any tale of crusader.
So the light showed her the world, and, making its beauty and warmth divine and near to her, the warmth and beauty became real in her, found their homely shadows in her daily life.
Very homely shadows her life gave of His light, for it was His: homely, because of her poor way of living, and of the depth to which the heavy foot of the world had crushed her.
All the keen pleasure of the day, the warm, bright sights and sounds, coarse and homely though they were, seemed to fade into the deep music, and make a part of it.
They had very cheerful little suppers there by themselves in the odd, bare little room, as homely and clean as Lois herself.
Margaret, through the heat and stifling air, worked steadily alone in the dusty office, the cold, homely face bent over the books, never changing but once.
Even in the cold and quiet of the woman walking by her side the homely power of the poor huckster was not weak to warm or to strengthen.
It occurred to him that he might as well, to quote a homely proverb, "be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
The hour of noon came on, and the father and child sat down to their homely repast.
To this homely strain of consolation the mourners returned no answer; indeed, they were so much lost in their own sorrows as to have become insensible of Ratcliffe's presence.
What though its couch be rude, Homely the only food Within its shade?
A third rode up at a startling pace - A suitor poor, with a homely face - No doubts appeared to bind him.
Tell me the history of them, Mr Swift, and their little homely ways and houses like bees' cells for size.
The brick-work of the place is in fact very poor, - inferior to that of the north Italian towns, and quite wanting in the richness of tone which this homely material takes on in the damp climates of the north.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
