His whole habit was quiet, domestic, and home-loving. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
They were an agricultural, industrious and home-loving people. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Are home-loving Six Nations referees becoming a law unto themselves?. From Wordnik.com. [Are home-loving Six Nations referees becoming a law unto themselves? | Robert Kitson] Reference
Yet it is perhaps only that his gift is essentially parochial and home-loving. From Wordnik.com. [Pulse by Julian Barnes - review] Reference
Category six are home-loving television addicts, who focus on getting value for money. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection: ITV1 Idents 2004-2009 « Art & Business of Motion] Reference
Egyptians, being home-loving persons and comfortable, found strangeness always a misery. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Unlike home-loving Cancer gals, this wild woman may move often and never fully settle down. From Wordnik.com. [HerScopes] Reference
The Taurus cat is routine-minded, home-loving, stubborn, predictable and calm unless provoked. From Wordnik.com. [Normal Medieval Animal Monday] Reference
For all races of Teutonic origin the claim is made that they are essentially home-loving people. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
She found the "adieus" very difficult to utter, when she went away, for she was a home-loving girl. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Clive was nothing loth to be independent; but he showed himself to be a very good home-loving youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Judge McDonald knows that I am a home-loving, law-abiding, tax-paying woman of Indiana, and have been for 50 years. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
Mrs. Tu was a home-loving and industrious woman, who did not often leave her home, or allow her children to run wild. From Wordnik.com. [Everlasting Pearl One of China's Women] Reference
In fact he has probably been doing the same with his expenses as all the other home-loving know wha' oi mean? troughers. From Wordnik.com. [SAVE GORBALS MICK?.] Reference
The "tour abroad" has ever been the lodestone which has drawn countless thousands of home-loving English and Americans to. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Though they lacked the strength of character that was Austin's heritage from his mother, they were home-loving as well as he. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
Be domestic and home-loving, secure as much knowledge as possible concerning house-hold affairs, and do not be ashamed to use it. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
It was years since some of them were in it, and to a home-loving, home-worshipping people it was a treat to go from room to room. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
It is not a graceful object when seen from behind, but it is an affectionate, home-loving creature with considerable intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
They might be home-loving types, but felt they could amuse themselves at some respectable venue so Helena and I might have some peace. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
The American public will not tolerate him chucking a fine home-loving American wife and running off with Madame Slant-Eye from Column B. From Wordnik.com. [Space]
As a home-loving man he was not a frequent visitor. From Wordnik.com. [We Three] Reference
He had found her feminine home-loving qualities most appealing. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
In private life they were four home-loving, law-abiding citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune Hunter] Reference
If ever there was a home-loving and home-staying person it was I. From Wordnik.com. [Kent Knowles: Quahaug] Reference
Our genial and home-loving Cowper has made his dog Beau classical. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
One feature of his character was definite -- he was a home-loving man. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Between, an International Romance] Reference
Liddy was essentially a home-loving girl and cared but little for company. From Wordnik.com. [Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England] Reference
They are not naturally daring and enterprising, but home-loving and affectionate. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852] Reference
She dreaded the end of her holidays as much as the most home-loving of her pupils. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
They are a home-loving people, and pine like the Swiss, if forced to leave their native land. From Wordnik.com. [Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag] Reference
The list of these home-loving birds is short; and those commonly seen are only a few of the total. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
It makes a call to the heart of every generous-minded man, and gives vivifying impulse to the home-loving of all faces. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Franklin K. Lane] Reference
American man-of-letters, for the American people is a home-loving people, and especially admires that quality in its great men. From Wordnik.com. [American Men of Mind] Reference
For the first time he was conscious of the peculiar graciousness and sense of home that only a home-loving woman may give to a house. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rose and Silver] Reference
They are, rather, cosiness, neatness, simplicity, and that homely air that grows from these and from the presence of a home-loving people. From Wordnik.com. [Village Improvements and Farm Villages] Reference
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