Like children fresh at camp

Usage examples of homesick.

Lafayette Escadrille are mighty kind and sociable, but there are times when a fellow gets homesick.

He thought about his Futon Mouth futon, down in Mar Vista, and actually felt homesick.

George are you crasy and he said no but he gessed after i had been out a while i wood be homesick.

I do not understand why you found it necessary to tell the Barnestones and the Witherspoons that I was homesick, that I wanted them to come to the Hogmanay gala.

He felt homesick and thought often of returning to Velen and facing whatever awaited him there.

The first course, put on the tables all at once, as were all the succeeding courses, consisted of tiny pasties full of codfish liver or beef marrow, a brewet of sliced pork in a spicy sauce, greasy fritters of more beef marrow, eels in a ginger-flavored aspic, bream fillets in a watery green sauce of herbs, a baron of tough and stringy beef for each pair of diners, boiled shoulders of pork and veal, and, to bring the course to an end, a seven-foot sturgeon, cooked whole and served with the skin replaced, surrounded by bowls of a sauce that Bass thought would have made a Mexican or Korean homesick, so hot was it.

She inhaled the scent deeply and thought of Mamo and her Canada Bouquet, and she tried not to be homesick.

But I was god-awful homesick, and when I smelt a muskeg again and saw the pointed sticks I could have grat with pleasure.

He found himself negligent of her gentle little friend and guest, Jessie Dean, to whom he had vowed to be a second father, and such a friend as she had been to his Pappoose when, a homesick, sad-eyed child, she entered upon her schooldays.

Screen, walking hand in hand through the Loop at midday in heat that would make Satan feel homesick, under a splotchy green sky that looked like an inverted bowl of vomit.

Some were forlorn and homesick, missing their friends, feeling transplaced, while others smiled behind their leaves, shouting in silent tree language for joy at their existence in a whole new landscape.

He used to hit the turps now and again and get dreadfully homesick, and babble about green mountains sloping down to the sea, and fluffy white clouds lazily sailing across a soft blue sky, and the smell of peat smoke fragrant in the dusk.

At the same time, Adams decided that young Charles, whose health remained uneven and who had become desperately homesick for his mother, should return to her in the care of Benjamin Waterhouse, who was on his way back to Boston.

But Ade Bennett had it, and he was human, and one day he might be homesick or desperate enough to find a way of getting back to Earth.

New England knows, if one came here as many a lonely youth had come here in the past, some boy from the inland immensity of America, some homesick lad from the South, from the marvellous hills of Old Catawba, he might be pierced again by the bitter ecstasy of youth, the ecstasy that tears him apart with a cry that has no tongue, the ecstasy that is proud, lonely, and exultant, that is fierce with joy and a moment, that the intangible cannot be touched, the ungraspable cannot be grasped--the imperial and magnificent minute is gone for ever which, with all its promises, its million intuitions, he wishes to clothe with the living substance of beauty.