What is "homely"

Usage examples of "homely".

It did not help that she was a terrible flirt, reckoning herself the belle of the steading, and it did not help that Evrard was a homely man, albeit a wealthy one.

He wandered up the aisles and activated the homely presence of the woman who served the dozen or so anachronistic places that were still scattered around Paris.

Ialin sat on a chest with his chin in his hands, a grin of amusement on his homely, androgynous features.

And if the women on the promenade were homely and ill-dressed, even the bonnes in unpicturesque costumes, and all the men were slouchy and stolid, how could any one tell what an effect of gayety and enjoyment there might be when there were thousands of such people, and the sea was full of bathers, and the flags were flying, and the bands were tooting, and all the theatres were opened, and acrobats and spangled women and painted red-men offered those attractions which, like government, are for the good of the greatest number?

He took a deep, contented breath of air scented with the homely smells of campfires in the distance and roasting dinner near at handand belatedly recalled the one small detail whose welfare was still his exclusive concern.

It was one of the new ones with the big, homely turret that housed a bigger, nastier cannon.

On the mantel over the fireplace were the homely little cookies that Rousseau had baked and sprinkled with caraway seed.

One of those anodynes that had once passed so easily into his hands, some soothing and euphoriant chemical or even a homely little joint.

She was a very homely woman, rather frumpish, and she lived for her children.

I blinked painfully, squinting in the glare-then gasped at the incredible figure standing in the open door Chapter 18 RED SWORDS IN KUUR It had a massive chest and burly shoulders, six, fat waddling legs and a blunt, homely visage, all gogling eyes and grinning, froglike mouth filled with blunt, powerful tusks.

He nodded at the emblems that had told him that she indeed followed feng shui diligently: an ostentatious bracelet of nine Chinese coins, a pin in the likeness of the homely goddess Guan Yin and a scarf with black fish on it.

Chinese coins, a pin in the likeness of the homely goddess Guan Yin and a scarf with black fish on it.

SPIRIT OF THE PITIES What do I see but thirsty, throbbing bands From these inimic hosts defiling down In homely need towards the little stream That parts their enmities, and drinking there!

God had found in the quarry, at the loom, in the mine, or at the lapstone, and sent forth Sunday by Sunday into the villages to preach a homely gospel to the poor, and comfort to His flock.

Carter heard their homely, friendly cry, and thought of the steep roofs and warm hearths and little lighted windows of home.