Footnote 117: In most stories of this class, the hero forgets his companion on reaching home, either by a charm or by breaking a taboo.
On reaching home, he found two lumps of ice in the sledge, and threw them out, but when they struck against a stone and did not break, he discovered that they were lumps of pure silver.
On reaching home, Tiidu found his father and several brothers and sisters still living, but his mother and some of his brothers were dead.
On reaching home, she found she had been absent seven years.
On reaching home, Eugene conducted Cornelia into the house, and was about to return when she said imperiously: "A word with you before you go.
Thus ended the first dreaded day at school, and, on reaching home, Beulah threw herself on her bed with a low, wailing cry.
On reaching home, and entering the little lighted hall with his latchkey, the first thing that caught his eye was his wife's gold-mounted umbrella lying on the rug chest.
On reaching home he sent gardeners and grooms in all directions with word that he would be glad to meet the men at four o'clock at the home farm.
On reaching home, he ordered out the barouche, with special instructions that the groom was to go too.
On reaching home he ordered his calash to be harnessed up, and donning his ribbon of the Order of Saint Anna, he started out to drive all over the town, as though he had actually fallen into luck.
To his room-mate he affirmed that the strong friendship he had formed for him, could alone induce him to relinquish the hope of reaching home previously to the autumn elections.
On reaching home I found a note from Major Dallas, General Garrett's aide-de-camp, apprising me that the lunch would take place in two days.
On reaching home, he wrote to invite Mrs. Shelley for Monday.
He was slightly less surprised, on reaching home, to find the hall ablaze with light and Barbara lying at full length on a sofa with her cloak trailing on the carpet and a bottle of eau-de-Cologne clutched in one hand.
On reaching home I found Maribu, a Mkungu, with a gang of men sent by Mtesa to fetch Grant from Kitangule by water.
God only knows what became of the rest; but the one I selected, on reaching home, I gave to Ilmas, my valet, for a wife.
On reaching home I told my mother all that had happened, and she declared that my little sister should have no dessert for two days.
On reaching home I sent word to my mother that I should be with her some time during the day.
He disappeared, and, reaching home, the father found the sprite again on the hearth.
Reaching home, his foot stumbled on the threshold, and, dropping the ball, he fell into the room where his mother was sitting.
On reaching homehe became somewhat calmer, and then he thought again of what Ivanoff had done.
On reaching home, in order to take his thoughts off the one engrossing subject, he sat down at the table and proceeded to read over certain sententious passages written by him recently.
On reaching home, Sanine undressed and got into bed, where he tried to read "Thus spake Zarathustra" which he had found among Lida's books.
On reaching home, he went softly to his room and opened the window looking on to the garden.
On reaching home, Gamelin found his mother and old Brotteaux playing a game of piquet by the light of a smoky tallow-candle.
On reaching home, he received notice that he was posted a member of the Council General of the Commune.
On reaching home, Évariste found his mother sitting at the window darning stockings.
Teddy would have talked with his friend regarding the prospects of reaching home within a reasonable length of time; but Neal was so anxious about his father that he could speak of nothing else.
On reaching home, the journalist flung aside his foolish coat of ceremony, indued a comfortable jacket, lit a pipe with long stem, and began to glance over an evening newspaper.
Two days later, on reaching home, Earwaker found in his letter-box a scrap of paper on which were scribbled a few barely legible lines.
It was so hard to believe, that, on reaching home, he sat for a long time occupied with the thought of it, to the exclusion of his own anxieties.
On reaching home he told Edgar what he had heard, and the lad listened with a thoughtful expression.
On reaching home, he harnessed a team and drove off to a sloo to haul in hay, but while he worked he cast anxious glances at the clouds.
On reaching home, George was not surprised to find that the man who had come for the horses had departed without waiting for his answer.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reaching home" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
