Zekiel Homespun in Colman's "Heir at Law" was one of his great parts.

His homespun origin was evident, yet he had developed an easy social style which was neither familiar nor aggressive.

simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.

It is so simple and homespun, so lacking in the gaudiness that makes (for example) our light and heat less than the billionth part wasted on space always at absolute zero, that we may have to wait many centuries to have it "verified" and "confirmed" by our Western Science.

Rawhide was used in place of lines, and homespun garments were uniform.

The seamstress who used to make up their homespun dresses had to come at this time, of course, and those were always two pleasant weekswhen the women folk sat together and busied themselves with sewing.

They had worn homespun clothes, but they had also been able to lead care-free and independent lives.

His head, from which he had raised a somewhat old and weather-beaten hat, was finely formed, and covered with chestnut curls; his clothes, also shabby and worn, were homespun and ill-fitting, but his erect military carriage, with an indescribable air of polish and fine breeding, seemed strangely incongruous in connection with his apparel and travel-worn appearance.

"Have a care, Francis," cried a pretty, roguish-looking girl in a gray homespun gown, brandishing a wet towel as she spoke; "hot lead will be your portion if you dare trifle with that boiling pot.

" "So I thought," answered Betty, who was busily engaged in changing her light summer gown for one of homespun gray; "and now, Moppet, you and I must go into your room for the next part of my plot.

Geoffrey's broad shoulders were the only sufferers, but the rough homespun which covered them was a better protection than his uniform would have been, and he again blessed the good fortune which had thrown the disguise in his way as he left Fairfield four days before.

The wholly alive fellow pictured in sketch No. 94 would make homespun look elegant.

After they had worn out the clothing brought with them from the old settlements, both men and women were under the necessity of wearing buckskin or homespun apparel.

She found her again, one morning, sitting in the midst of a pile of homespun, which she was cutting up with great shears into boys' blouses.

He had his sealing-wax and a lighted "homespun candle," as Leslie called the dips of Mrs. Green's manufacture, in one hand, and a pincushion stuck full of needles waiting for tops, in the other.

I'm afraid I haven't anything to be done just now, unless I cut out some very coarse, heavy homespun.

By the light which streamed in through the holes in the tops of the shutters I distinguished the green painted chairs backed up stiffly against the wall, the striped homespun carpet, andirons crossed in the fireplace, with shovel and tongs to match, the big Bible on the table under the glass, a waxwork on the high mahogany desk in the corner, and a few shells and other ornaments upon the mantelshelf.

When my perplexity was at its worst I saw a shepherd, whose form, wrapped in the long brown homespun cloak called a limousine, stood solemnly against the evening sky.

At length the former, suffering a quaint and peculiar smile to gleam for a moment across his countenance, said abruptly, "I welcome sir Hector Homespun!"

All of our clothing was homespun, our socks were knitted, and everything.

Yet, even in the eyes of the multitude the plain homespun of Christ's speech was shot with gleams of more than earthly lustre.

" While we were waiting, a white woman wearing a homespun dress and slat-bonnet, came down the road from the other side of the creek, and lifting her skirts slightly, waded with bare feet across the shallow stream.

He was always clad in the fringed hunting-shirt, of homespun or buckskin, the most picturesque and distinctively national dress ever worn in America.

Officers and men alike wore homespun hunting-shirts trimmed with colored cotton; the cloth was made from hemp, tow, and wild-nettle bark.

We all wore dresses made o' homespun.