How To Use Homeliness In A Sentence
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Yet it lacked the usual dust in the air, the homeliness and lived-in appearance his old lab had.
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Scoff not its homeliness, nor that of its inmates -- ye might long have abidden at the court of England, ere we had sought your favour, or cumbered you with our society.
The Monastery
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I was surprised at the tidiness of his flat, the homeliness of it.
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Like most great beauties, she narrowly missed homeliness.
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Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
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In the palace there were half a dozen officers 'quarters, and these had been apportioned to the married; consequently the palace had that air of homeliness which is supposed to be lacking in the quarters of single men.
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
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Perugino was evidently a devout man; and the Virgin, therefore, revealed herself to him in loftier and sweeter faces of celestial womanhood, and yet with a kind of homeliness in their human mould, than even the genius of Raphael could imagine.
The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni
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It doesn't help that her homeliness is a sharp contrast to the declaration of all the men on screen that she's some sort of immortal beauty.
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Just because men didn't fill their diaries with their notion of "homeliness" doesn't mean they weren't interested in it, nor does it deter Vickery from trying to find out the details.
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However, there was little sense of homeliness or cosiness.
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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.
Queen Victoria
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homeliness," or, as we would now say, since this term has been perverted, of "hominess," the suggestion of adding to the pleasure of the household.
Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife
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The truth was that, despite economic miracles, we were surrounded by social problems ranging from drugs and joyriding to sex abuse and homeliness.
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Kande will introduce its unique "Scent of kande" to our lobby in our Huizhou establishment from January 1,2008. So immerse yourself and enjoy the freshness and homeliness of Kande.
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They manage to combine a mumsy gingham - clad homeliness with rank extremism.
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So may I enter a plea for simplicity, homeliness and humour, in the teaching of chemistry?
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After the comfort and homeliness of Aaron's apartment, nothing could prepare us for our suite at the Paramount.
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Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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I suppose United States Senators have been made out of timber a deal smaller than Mart, who was a shrewd, resourceful and shifty old boy with that rugged sort of homeliness which is a good deal better than handsome looks in catching the fancy of the plain people.
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
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Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
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Scoff not its homeliness, nor that of its inmates — ye might long have abidden at the court of England, ere we had sought your favour, or cumbered you with our society.
The Monastery
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Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
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Despite the high ceilings and generous proportions the house exudes comfort and homeliness.
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Dybwad, being nearer to the Elizabethan time in her daily life, gives us an Elizabethan maiden with a touch of "homeliness"; but Julia Marlowe's, like Ada Rehan's "Rosalind," has something of the artificial character of Watteau.
Confessions of a Book-Lover
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Fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness.
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Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire.
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So really, uncanny is a good translation in some ways, but unhomely gets at the sense from a different direction, starting with the expectation of homeliness, that comfort that comes from familiarity, and then reversing it with the prefix "un.
Home and Unheimliche
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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.
England's Antiphon
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fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness
