Fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is this simplicity and 'homeliness' of the Queen which were so often misunderstood by those who could not realize how much she was at one with her people. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria] Reference
She lays special stress upon the "homeliness" and "courtesy" of God's dealings with us, "for love maketh might and wisdom full meek to us.". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
In these poems will be found that love of homeliness which is characteristic of all true poets ” and orators too, in as far as they are poets. From Wordnik.com. [England's Antiphon]
There was order, even homeliness, in its arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
The very homeliness of his genius was its distinction. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
'Distinction' was defined to be 'a diction which avoided homeliness. '. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
In her homeliness she presented a strange contrast to her surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
There should be an air of homeliness and open hospitality about the place. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
Sister Ambrose took comfort from the unchanged homeliness of these familiar things. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
Don't laugh at me for the homeliness of the simile -- it suggested a gigantic cradle. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But it was wonderful, the homeliness and comfort found in those single apartment houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
There are flowers in the windows and garden, and within, simplicity and sweet homeliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
Yet that homeliness made him intriguing to some human females, judging by the idle chatter. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
This was an entirely inadequate explanation, but its homeliness would satisfy and reassure. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
They breathe forth a great kindliness and homeliness, and one could fill pages with quotations. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
And certain it is that, in our plainest homeliness, yet never was the Albion nation without poetry. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
But, the extraordinary homeliness of her gait and manner, would have superseded any face in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Life] Reference
Its tasks often have the appearance of homeliness until we glimpse that kind of beauty that is humanness. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
There is an honest homeliness and unreserve about them, which I would not exchange for any graces of style. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
Yet it may be that the homeliness of Plato's illustration has misled us as to the seriousness of the problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Their very homeliness is delightful, by leaving the imagination free to dwell upon their pleasing suggestions. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
There are, however, moments of humor delivered with a self-deprecating shrug that makes up for their homeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Interpreting the Evolution of English] Reference
These were largely of the Abdallah type of horse, noted for coarseness, homeliness, also soft and lazy constitutions. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference
'Tenty welcomed her with her usual cordial homeliness, gave her the easiest chair she had, and commenced hospitalities. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
Plain, to homeliness, as it was, yet the effect was so entirely one of brightness and comfort that Morton broke out with. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
Knowing my own homeliness, I had all charity for the animal and did not censure him for being so terribly frightened at my appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
The experiment was extended to other southern and western dialects, the collection making a little book of curious charm and homeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Coarse, uneducated, toil-worn women, and girls who promised in a few years to emulate their mothers in homeliness, possessed no charms for me. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
It maintained, however, partly perhaps by the intention of its designers, but chiefly through accident, a character of picturesqueness and homeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
No roofing so combines dignity and homeliness, and no roofing except possibly thatch (which, however, is short-lived) so surely passes into the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The rooms looked as if they had been got ready hurriedly, but they were handsome and richly furnished, and Burden apologized for their lack of homeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
"But he seems so glad," said Mary Fuller, struck with a thrill of sympathy for the dog, rendered repulsive to that silly woman by his age, as she was by her homeliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
A woman must be mature in years, plain almost to homeliness in dress, and by no means liberally endowed with personal attractions, if she hoped to meet the approval of Miss Dix. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
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