home-feeling

• “I grew up in South Carolina, so there's something so safe and home-feeling about being there.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Kelly Wearstler

• “A home-feeling comes over one, even in the interior of Africa, at seeing once more cattle grazing peacefully in the meadows.”

  A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

• “It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town.”

  The Scarlet Letter

• “It is this sweet home-feeling, this settled repose of affection in the domestic scene, that is, after all, the parent of the steadiest virtues and purest enjoyments; and I cannot close these desultory remarks better, than by quoting the words of a modern”

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

• “The quiet dinner with my landlady, the afternoon rest, the fresh toilet, the sort of home-feeling that my room already gave me, all did their part towards bringing back my usual composure before Tom came in the evening; and then, sitting by the window in the little parlor, I could talk rationally of my plans for the future.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864

• “It is singular what a home-feeling and sense of kindred I derived from this hereditary connection and fancied physiognomical resemblance between the old town and its well-grown daughter, and how reluctant I was, after chill years of banishment, to leave this hospitable place, on that account.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862

• “We had visited the English military cemetery formed in Crimean days, and had experienced a strange home-feeling as we read the familiar names on the headstones.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.

• “Whether arriving from the Baltic or the Guadalquivir, I have always a recurrence of the same nameless home-feeling, which renders me at once happy and tranquil.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

• “And so even the road is to have the home-feeling in it.”

  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

• “So as I now often sit and listen to the breakers of the grand old Pacific Ocean, I am given an old home-feeling, I am listening, in memory, to the roar of that might water-fall, the Falls of St. Anthony, as they sounded fifty years ago.”

  Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History

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