We want to purty up the shack so 'twill look homey an' smilin' a welcome to her the minute she steps into the door.
Half an hour later all were seated about a festive board and Miss Gordon declared that of such delicious homey cooking she had not partaken since she was a girl.
Somehow that loft-room seemed more homeyafter all.
A moment later all was hurry and scurry in the homey kitchen of that old log house, for this was a red-letter morning in the lives of the four little Martins.
We'd be saving considerable--a night's lodging for two, and we can make this real comfortable and homey by bedtime.
The girls tease her about not being able to see a scrap of goods without wishing to find some way to use it, but they love the homey flavor her home-made things give to the house.
But over it all a spirit of peace and contentment rested--a homey atmosphere, unmistakable and refreshing.
Between the large west windows were two single beds, and in a corner a grate with an open fire gave a homey touch.
Aunt Lucinda had taken out her sewing and there was a very homey atmosphere--even in the garish hotel room--conducive to a confidential chat.
The long, low, stone ranch-house, nestling under its sheltering vines, had an old and familiarly homey look to Jerry.
All the homey sounds of the early summer morning flitted out from the "Eden" kitchen and barn-yard.
And everywhere Mat's hands had put homeytouches of comfort and beauty.
The Echoes," a homey little hotel nestling at the base of the green hill, with its square white tower, peeped picturesquely from the protecting sweep of graceful willows and silvery poplars.
The simple, homey rule of knowing things before we talk about them holds in every other sphere of study, and it is the rule which Jesus himself inculcated.
We'll take a suburban train and ride till we see a place that looks homey and there we'll get off and hunt.
The light was gleaming through the shrubbery of the little cottage, and the homeysounds of evening and the twitter of late-coming birds were in the air.
Fenneben's study, found only Elinor there, looking out at the radiant beauty of the sunset sky beyond the homey shadows studded with the twinkling lights of Lagonda Ledge at the foot of the slope.
What's better than making a comfy home and bringing up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?
And soon the historic, homey city cast its strange spell over her heart, and claimed her for its own.
It would be good to have a windmill within ear-shot of the house, he mused; its squeaking would ease Martha with a homey sound.
As they jolted along the path through the pine trees, heading toward Datura-village, near which their homestead stood, they sang the other homey songs to the music of the old guitar.
There's a homey feeling about it that one misses in bigger places, and the mater is a genius at gardening, and gets the maximum of effect out of the space.
Not as an exponent of entertainment, but as part of the group having a pleasant, homey evening.
I don't know why London seems a more homey place than New York.
McKenzie thought it must be nice and warm and homey down below as he tugged on the cold, wet wire, grimy with coal-dust, and hard on his tender hands.
He opened the door and ushered her in, and when she surveyed the clean and homey interior, he waited, almost breathlessly for her comments.
The smell of her powder and the familiar acoustics of Union Station's cavernous platform whirled him back to his childhood in Toronto, to the homey time before he'd gotten on the circadian merry-go-round.
Even over the phone, the homey voices and points of view felt indefinably comfortable and familiar.
Just a definite idea of finding a small apartment and making it as homey as possible.
Strange how such homey trifles persist in the mind of a commercial nun through two months of supposed enjoyment and liberty.
We came away feeling that Sweden is a very large and useful nation, and a homey and comfortable sort of people.
It is so homey and lovely in there that we feel that we could be perfectly happy all day and every day in there.
It is so nice to be doing something for some one again, something real homey and family-like," she remarked as she laid the table for dinner.
It was such a homey place that we felt welcome and perfectly comfortable at once.
We wouldn't change a line of their stately old pillars or a pebble of their darlinghomey gardens.
