Read full poem →In my own shire, if I was sad
Homely comforters I had:
The earth, because my heart was sore,
Dictionary Entry
Simple, unpretentious, and often plain or unattractive in appearance, especially regarding a home or a person.
In a Sentence
“The small cottage had a homely charm, with its worn furniture and warm fireplace, making visitors feel instantly welcome.”
Origin
From Old English 'hām' (home) + '-ly'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “homely”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Go, work, hunt, exercise! (he thus began)
Then scorn a homely dinner, if you can.
Your wine lock'd up, your butler stroll'd abroad,
Read full poem →And when he saddest sits in homely cell,
He’ll teach his swains this carol for a song,—
Read full poem →the cashier who makes the payment. In anoth-
er homely definition, God is the physician,
Christ the prescription, and the Holy Spirit is
Read full poem →speakers. Ford has personality, rides rough-shod over
English grammar, but wins his crowd with homely points
such as these:
Read full poem →I fhall not imitate, in this Dedication ‘(if fuch
an homely Epiftle may afpire-to fo polite a
Name) the Conduct of moft modern Authors,
Read full poem →was as broad ‘as could be wished. Between the grip and
the homely idiom no boy could endure without squealing.
So the Sunday School paid more attention to James, whose
Read full poem →Such bits of homely wisdom were like relief from cramp
and pain, to Alvina. “It takes his sort to make all sorts.”
Read full poem →admit the inferiority of the Neo-Latin races, and adds
with homely humour in reference to Germany, that, we
“ must not throw away the baby with the bath-water ” !
Read full poem →In another moment he was slumbering by David’s warm
and comforting humanity, under the homely rainbow of the
patchwork quilt.