'Home' was in every tone, each movement, all the orders.

I am often obliged to send word that I am not 'at home' to the beaux, and yet that is very cruel.

* * 19 tat'ter wreathed Ken tuck' y de scend'ed re cess' home' stead en rap' tured Penn syl va' ni a "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME.

"Alas! to return alone to our deserted home With no open window to herald our approach, If, when from the horizon we behold our roof, We cannot say, 'My return gladdens my home'." LAMARTINE (Jocelin).

Amid the ringing of bells, the waving of flags, and the gratulations of the people, the procession proceeded through a few of the principal streets, and then drove to the beautiful residence of Professor Morse, the band playing, as they entered the grounds, 'Sweet Home' and then 'Auld Lang Syne.'

But, Nancy, d'ye hear, now write That I'm 'At Home' on Thursday night; 'Tis a good fashion, for 'tis what Most fashions in this age are not A saving one: ah, prithee think, How it saves time, and quills, and ink!"

I'm really thinking of offering the maids a piano and refreshments if they will give an 'at home' once a week, as the only men in the neighbourhood seem to be the butchers and grocery clerks and the police.

In the summer of 1870, Gissing remembered with a pious fidelity of detail the famous drawing of the 'Empty Chair' being framed and hung up 'in the school-room, at home' (Wakefield).

But Goldthorpe gave only a glance at this still life; his interest was engrossed by a human figure, seated on a campstool near the back wall of the house, and holding a concertina, whence, at this moment, in slow, melancholy strain, 'Home, Sweet Home' began to wheeze forth.

In the same moment 'Home, Sweet Home' came to an end, and, but for the cry of a milkman, the early-morning silence was undisturbed.

After 'Home, Sweet Home' came 'The Bluebells of Scotland,' after that 'Annie Laurie'; and Mr. Spicer's repertory was at an end.

n' 'spected home 'tel ebenin'.

From the fields it is not Vintage, Drunk and weary wavers home 'Tis a spectre, meagre, gloomy, As a nightmare dread become.

"Marse George come home' bout two years after de war started an' married Miss Martha Ann.

" "Notheir 'country home' isn't much like our 'country home.'

I'm going to forget myself, the way you do, and 'make a home' for father.

This talk about 'home' is all very well, but I happen to knowand I fancy you do, toothat home can be a particularly stultifying place.

" "What?" "Do you think we'll be 'home' in time to eat Christmas dinner?" "Rather!" "Thank you so much!

"So then the crowd was uproarious, and I treated several times for Mrs. Scraggs and several times for myself, divided the money square, wrapped her half in a parcel with 'God Bless our Home' marked on it and sent it around to her.

They stayed there till nearly eleven o'clock, and then Bill set off home 'olding the unfortunit Peter by the scruff

The ignited punk was used to light a large bonfire, and then the head of every family was required to take home 'new fire' to rekindle a fire in his or her fire-place.

Mr. Podmore, who quotes this, offers the explanation that the witnesses were excited, and that Home 'thrust his head and shoulders out of the window.'

whose name is the least of her charms, Waves a welcome to all, to come over the billows And find a safe home 'neath her sheltering arms.

" "Before 'home' the preposition 'at' should never be omitted, but the preposition 'to' is always omitted: e.g., 'I am going home.'

He was taken from her and delivered over to Lady Archfield to be caressed and pitied because his father would not come home 'to see his grand-dame's own beauty,' while Lucy took the guests upstairs to prepare for supper, Naomi and her maid being bestowed in the best guest-chamber, and Lucy taking her friend to her own, the scene of many a confabulation of old.