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The biography of Robert Young, for example, while emphasizing a new screen role for him, recapitulates his family-man persona: "Young is a heavy contributor to charity; but he is not charitable toward night clubs, which would go out of existence if dependent on such a home-lover as he."
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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She's a home-lover who made a run for it to prove she could, 'Cleonymus told me.
See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005
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“Inwood” was an ideal residence section, equipped with every modern convenience for the home-lover, and destined to be one of the most exclusive and beautiful suburbs of the city.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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He shook off his vapours vexatiously, and, as he had done on the first night of Count Victor's coming, he went to his curious orisons at the door -- the orisons of the sentimentalist, the home-lover.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Balzac, in "Pere Goriot," caught and reproduced its very soul as well as the soul of the homeless home-lover that it harbored.
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He brought up a family of ten children and was a great home-lover, with no fondness for the theatre, opera, or club life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The home-lover Daudet also felt the necessity of showing that Paris could set the Joyeuse household, sunny in its poverty, over against the stately elegance of the Mora palace, the walls of which listened at one and the same moment to the music of a ball and the death-rattle of its haughty owner.
The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868
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You're essentially a home-lover, he's a wanderer, yet each of you complements the other.
SFGate: Top News Stories MINERVA 2010
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You're essentially a home-lover, he's a wanderer, yet each of you complements the other.
SFGate: Top News Stories MINERVA 2010
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a home-lover at heart, and even in war will not separate himself from his wife and children.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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