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  • Bread and grapes and Tyrolese wine were placed for them, and Johann's mother soon produced a salad, eggs, and fowl; and then and there declared her willingness to receive Rosetta into the household, 'if she would swear at the outset never to have' heimweh '

    Vittoria — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • Bread and grapes and Tyrolese wine were placed for them, and Johann's mother soon produced a salad, eggs, and fowl; and then and there declared her willingness to receive Rosetta into the household, 'if she would swear at the outset never to have' heimweh '

    Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Bread and grapes and Tyrolese wine were placed for them, and Johann's mother soon produced a salad, eggs, and fowl; and then and there declared her willingness to receive Rosetta into the household, 'if she would swear at the outset never to have' heimweh '

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • But after the boys were abed, he sat long before his fire with the tired look on his face and the 'heimweh', or homesickness, lying heavy at his heart.

    Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • Jane swallowed her "heimweh" in silence, and bestirred herself so well that soon the stateroom looked very cosy with the wrappers laid ready, the hanging bags tacked up, and all made ship-shape for the ten days 'trip.

    A Garland for Girls Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • Strangers, born upon mountains, we consume in lowly places, with unhealthy _heimweh_ (home-sickness).

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • But after the boys were abed, he sat long before his fire with the tired look on his face and the ` heimweh ', or home - sickness, lying heavy at his heart.

    Little Women 1921

  • Did he spend the winter by himself, or did the _heimweh_ smite his heart more sorely and bring him irresistibly to the loved nest in the rafters?

    The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

  • He had tried the soul-rousing _heimweh_ from the slow movement of Dvorák's _New

    Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

  • She had been frightened at the solemnity of Douglas Fraser's hasty farewell, and, while Justine Delande affected to touch the breakfast spread in their rooms by the Swiss lady's maid, now gloomy in an attack of heimweh, Nadine saw a four-wheeler rattle away over the lawn, while old Andrew Fraser grimly watched it until the gates clanged behind the departing Anglo-Indian.

    A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

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