What is "homewards"

Usage examples of "homewards".

He muttered darkly and in distinguishably and strode off homewards, his hands in his blouson pockets and his shoulders hunched.

Mincio, listened with haughty tranquillity to their petition, allowed himself to be soothed and, as it were, magnetised by the words and gestures of the venerable pontiff, accepted the rich presents which were doubtless laid at his feet, and turning his face homewards recrossed the Julian Alps, leaving the Apennines untraversed and Rome unvisited.

Derry Welfram died I drove homewards to London wondering yet again, as so many people had wondered so often, just what leverage Filmer had used on Gideon.

Aylwin set out homewards along the ridge which ran east, between the marshes, following the instructions which the Abbey Guestmaster had given him, which would eventually take him to Reading, and so on to London.

Then she turned and trotted off into the woods and Janko rode homewards without her.

They talked for an hour, then it was time for Adela to hasten homewards, in order to have dinner ready by half-past one.

She seemed unwilling to wait, and Baruch and she went slowly homewards, thinking the others would overtake them.

With the assistance, however, of the imperial tablet or passport with which they were provided, and which commanded respect and insured them accommodation in all the places through which they passed, they made their way homewards, and at the end of three years reached the port of Giazza, or Ayas, in Lesser Armenia.

Then I turned my face homewards, for now Anahuac had no king to rescue, but it chanced that before I went I caught a Tlascalan who could speak Spanish, and who had deserted from the army of Cortes because of the hardships that he suffered in their toilsome march.

In the notorious case of the Lancashire witches, at the first trial, 1612, James Device confessed that upon Sheare Thursday was two yeares, his Grand-Mother Elizabeth Souternes alias Demdike, did bid him this Examinate goe to the Church to receive the Communion (they next day after being Good Friday), and then not to eate the Bread the Minister gave him, but to bring it and deliver it to such a thing as should meet him in his way homewards.

So after we were rested a little, and the Kafirs had cut out the hearts of two of the dead elephants for supper, we started homewards, very well pleased with our day's work, having made up our minds to send the bearers on the morrow to chop away the tusks.

Wall, he wuz so dead tired by this time, that we sot sail homewards.

As I walked homewards, I had the sense of straying onto a film set.

In front of him was an untouched gourd of beer and around were noisy men, drinking or standing or dead drunk on benches, or heading homewards for their dormitories or rooming houses, or favorite bar or gambling rooms that crowded together here in a slum as bad or worse than any in London town.