home-comings

Moreover, the prodigal is often such a charming and engaging creature that all is forgiven him many times more than is good for his soul, and who, therefore, has many fatted calves set before him in renewed festivals over his repeated home-comings.

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

The value of these annual home-comings has always been emphasized by the Alumni

The University of Michigan Wilfred Shaw

Neither home-comings nor departures would ever be the same for him again; for behind him he left

Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne

They were seldom demonstrative to this extent save in his home-comings and leave-takings.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

But if the reader will try to create mental pictures of the frequently recurring home-comings under the same circumstances, she will develop interesting studies in domestic psychology as she watches the effect upon Jack when the truth begins to dawn upon him.

The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

They were horrible home-comings, horrible evenings, but the next morning they would seem like dreams.

The Branding Iron Katharine Newlin Burt 1929

Conversation does not ripple and sparkle during these home-comings.

The White Feather 1928

The husband, more and more immersed in his business, was absent from home for long periods; irritable after some of these home-comings; boisterously high-spirited following other trips.

Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

The husband, more and more immersed in his business, was absent from home for long periods irritable after some of these home-comings; boisterously high-spirited following other trips.

One Basket Edna Ferber 1926

His imagination reconjured all the midnights they had witnessed -- the home-comings under cover of darkness, the secret endearments of lovers, the muffled laughter.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921