Example Sentences

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Two springs ago a friend visited him in his Manhattan hotel room, complimented the apartment on its books, pictures, flowers, its homelikeness.

From Time Magazine Archive

To many a sufferer, coming there in dread and foreboding, the sight of a child familiar and happy about the great building brought a feeling of comfort and homelikeness which nothing else could have given.

From Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch by Raymond, Evelyn

She had only seen two rooms of the Hewitt house, and that when they were dressed out of all homelikeness, because of the reception.

From The Wishing-Ring Man by Widdemer, Margaret

In the one—height, narrowness, noise, monotony, dirt, sordid squalor, pretentiousness; in the other—light, space, moderation, homelikeness.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)

The room was cleanly, with a crude homelikeness about it.

From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving