Apparently my mother's homesickness mounted from time to time in an insupportable crisis; but perhaps she did not go Up-the-River so often as it seemed.
For me, a terrible homesickness fell instantly upon me--a homesickness that already, in the mere prospect of absence, pierced my heart and filled my throat.
We joked, and got some miserable laughter out of the efforts of the horse to free himself from the snow that balled in his hoofs, but I suffered all the time an anguish of homesickness that now seems incredible.
Thus the homesicknessof the well-quartered, well-fed negro became a greater hindrance to the work than the ill-fed condition of the "bush dweller.
There are two societies on the Isthmus which tell of the effects of homesickness of the Americans in the employ of the Canal Commission--the Incas, and the Society of the Chagres.
A vague, yearning homesickness seemed ever to possess him.
He jotted down the peculiar phases of his master's new disease with the care and minute exactness of a physician; and, we doubt not, ultimately added the knowledge of the symptoms of homesickness to his already well-filled stores of erudition.
Henri's idea of homesickness was so totally opposed to theirs, that his comrades only laughed, and refrained from attempting to set him right.
If the calendar over Alec's mantel could have told the history of the next few weeks, it would have been the record of a hard struggle with homesicknessand discouragement.
Not till the cold November nights came did Miss Eunice detect a little note of homesickness creeping into his letters.
The earlier the student considers this question of homesickness the better.
Homesickness is not to be laughed at, but it must be less deadly, less fatal than some people think it, or there would not be so many recoveries.
Science, the open-minded study of nature, is only a homesicknessfor truth seeking relief.
Each passing day was very much like that which had gone before, all had their homesickness and longings.
The sight of Porter and the mention of Clarkson brought hishomesickness to an acute stage.
When he went East, Saxton settled down at his club in Boston, and pretended that it was good to be at home again; but he went about with homesickness gnawing his heart.
He stood like a monument, gazing fixedly, struggling with all the might of his twelve years to conquer the awful feeling of homesickness that came to him.
Those silent and terrible days, when she lost interest in the bustle of living, and felt an awful homesickness for some unknown good, passed entirely away.
But this particular September night, as they drifted up past the rock, and saw the defenses of their country bristling against them, the feeling of homesickness vented itself in complaints.
Homesickness grew to be a positive frenzy with him.
The agonies ofhomesickness he had endured seemed to haunt even the cold clay.
The women wept over us, reminding us eloquently of the perils of the sea, of the bewilderment of a foreign land, of the torments of homesickness that awaited us.
But, as the distance between him and his humble cabin in far away Martinsville increased, a feeling of homesickness crept over him until he was utterly miserable.
It was this dread which prevented such an attempt on the part of Otto, while his homesicknessincreased until his appetite vanished and his looks were woe-begone.
And where did he learn the longing homesickness of a child for the country?
It was with the authentic pang of homesickness that he left it, finally, to make that northward journey from which he was never to return.
He felt as though he had never been away from the place, and were tired to death of it, and at the same time his heart was contracted with homesickness for America.
A warm welcome and a good supper awaited the young traveller at the parsonage; and under their cheering influence his homesickness was, for the time being, forgotten.
But it is far more with a sacramental longing than a mere homesickness that a psalmist of the Exile cries out, I will lift up mine eyes to the hills: from whence cometh mine help?
Much of her homesickness had fled since she had received Daddy's letter.
Grant and how much he was liked by the poor wretches who needed some one as kind and gentle as he to keep them from dying of homesickness if nothing else.
It was this homesickness that made Miranda sigh and frown as she looked at that room, gray and dingy with the accumulated dirt of the winter, and thought of the task before her.
Men have died of thishomesickness on many a foreign soil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homesickness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aching; hankering; languishing; longing; nostalgia; pining; yearning
