The tone was jocular, but the red mustaches drooped, and the half-hearted cut he gave to start the white mare on her homeward journey showed that he was not in his usual devil-may-care mood.
Clara Belle kissed Rebecca fervently, and started on her homeward walk, while Rebecca waited at the top of the long hill, fluttering her handkerchief as a signal.
After a few chattering good-bys and weather prophecies with the other girls, she started on her homeward walk, dropping in at the parsonage to read her verses to the minister.
Merry good-byes were spoken, and very soon the boys were on their homeward way, with Beach Cliff vanishing in the distance.
This course, Captain Sproul believed, would bring them to Bering Sea, and their homeward route.
Every ile barrel is full and we're homeward bound!
It had been after a wild ride homeward that Erna met Albrecht and turned away from him.
She rose from the grassy mound on which she had been sitting, and soon they were on their homeward way through the forest.
Their step was free and light; they came with a kind of hardy grace, elastic, poised, and very young, homeward from some visit on this holiday.
Had I known of those fears, those dangers, I might have turned homeward from France and every shining scheme.
All earthly grief, I imagine, only quickens her homeward step.
Each weary toiler, with lingering pace, As he homeward turns, with the long day done, Looks out to the west, with the light on his face Of the setting sun.
And some see only a golden sky Where the elms their welcoming arms stretch wide To the calling rooks, as they homeward fly At the eventide.
I'll bet all the bad marks I shall get for the next quarter, that we are homeward bound.
Only a few of the students went on shore, and those on duty; and at noon on the day after the arrival of the Josephine, the squadron got under way, homeward bound.
The two vessels were to meet at Lisbon, near the end of the month, and from that port proceed on the homeward voyage.
She hurried homeward between the thundering breakers on the one hand and the tossing palms on the other, her mind in a state of storm.
To miss nothing, she hurriedhomeward on that May afternoon, so as to be beside her tea-table in the drawing-room before any one appeared.
Late in the afternoon I saw Ántonia driving her cattle homeward across the hill.
As we walked homeward across the fields, the sun dropped and lay like a great golden globe in the low west.
Although the narrative of the homeward voyage is by no means uninteresting, and contains details of the river's course valuable to the geographer and to the future explorer, it has not the attraction of the up-stream narrative.
On our homeward ride in the early morning we passed a Swahili village.
Then, marking the places where the carcasses lay, we returned homeward through the swamp, too triumphant and too tired to worry about the enraged fugitives who lurked in its recesses.
After breakfast we took leave of the kind-hearted missionaries, whose singular devotedness and delightful spirit won greatly upon our affections, and bent our way homeward by another route.
And there, at least, the young man spoke truth, for regrets pursued him on his homeward way.
The Archdeacon also had started on his homeward journey to Bishop's Pudbury.
We drove for several miles on the way homeward in silence.
The proprietor of the shop became the temporary guardian of my watch, while I was invested with the funds necessary for my homeward journey.
The night was clear and keen but perfectly still, and the young people, arm in arm, walked slowly homeward under the bare maples, in delicious companionship.
You've struck the right trail now, parson," said Chapman, as they walked homeward together.
They thought Bacon had no right to speak out that way, and Miss Graham uttered her protest, as they whirled away on the homewardride with pleasant jangle of bells.
Egypt," that Menelaos moored his ships and forced "Egyptian Proteus" to declare to him his homeward road.
But he would have passed it again on his homeward voyage.
Orders for homeward bound vessels are now issued at foreign ports in the Western hemisphere or elsewhere by the Consular officers, assisted by men of sea-faring experience specially instructed.
She proceeded north-east after a steamer which was homeward bound about four miles away, and soon after we saw a tall column of water, etc.
As he danced he took care to back in a homeward direction.
The survivors of his war-dwindled force were only a few yards behind him, lounging on their tired horses, and scarcely caring to keep up the burden of their homeward song.
They all knew that, and many no doubt wished that they also were homeward bound.
Now it was the thought of this that sent me in a most exalted yet highly disordered condition of mind upon my homeward course.
Circe,' said I, 'please to keep the promise you made me about furthering me on myhomeward voyage.
We must see that he comes to no harm while on his homeward journey, but when he is once at home he will have to take the luck he was born with for better or worse like other people.
I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes.
There it was that I heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he had entertained him, and shown him much hospitality while he was on his homeward journey.
Though you were to stay here and question me for five years, or even six, I could not tell you all that the Achaeans suffered, and you would turn homeward weary of my tale before it ended.
Phaedimus, king of the Sidonians, gave it me in the course of a visit which I paid him when I returned thither on my homeward journey.
The homeward journey lay through Paris, where the ruins of the Tuileries awakened melancholy reflections; Strassburg, which still bore plain traces of siege, to the Weinburg where Prince Charles Anthony was feverishly awaiting their arrival.
He had known that the question must come, and all the way on his homeward journey he had been revolving in his mind the answer he would give to it.
The Haupt-Allee indeed interested her still less than the Wurstel-Prater, and she rejoiced when she set her face homeward and saw the chill white peaks of the Glöckner arise out of the mists.
On the homeward canter, the gray-haired foreman managed to drop a word which lightened Dell's depression and cleared up the supposed error.
There was no checking of mounts until the range of dunes was reached, when from the summit of a sand hill the stragglers were located in care of Sargent, and on the homeward drift.
They were met returning, near the dead-line, and after listening to the breathless report, the trio gave free rein to their horses on the homeward ride.
The plan was feasible, the cattle were herd-broke, knew their bed and water, and on the homeward circle all that was required was to direct and time the grazing herd.
The noon hour had brought the herd in for its daily water, and no animal was overlooked on the homeward ride.
Under favorable conditions, the cattle could be depended on to graze until noon, when they were allowed an hour's rest, and the circle homeward was timed so as to reach the corral and water by sunset.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homeward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
