George poised with the tack hammer, the homely, everyday atmosphere, all denied an attempt at murder.

Again the homely, everyday details of daily living refuted a vicious attempt to frighten her -- or to murder her.

" Though not for the most part identifiably sectarian, Taylor's poems nonetheless are marked by a robust spiritual content, characteristically conveyed by means of homely and vivid imagery derived from everyday Puritan surroundings.

Registered as The Parvis Flat, these living quarters are extremely homely and the roof-top balcony is ideal for summer entertainment

Its main purpose is the recommendation of the German middle class as the soundest element in the nation, but it also has a more directly patriotic intention in the contrast it draws between the supposedly homely virtues of the German, while presenting in negative light Poles and Jews.

They also appreciated the " homely " feeling of SimTower, in contrast with other Sim games such as SimEarth and SimLife, which they felt were too universal to take on a personal identity.

The German people are described as amiable, unselfish, homely and kind yet also placid and obedient, eager to obey those in authority.

The reader also gathers the impression that the height of the poet's imagination is not in proportion with the depth of his piety — there often appears in him something naive, almost homely, as when Mary expresses her pleasure in the Magi and calls attention to their utility for the impending Flight into Egypt.

Now a little flush came on her pale homely face and enchantment in her eyes.

She grows content only when her courtiers assure her that Octavia is homely by Elizabethan standards: short, low-browed, round-faced and with bad hair.

However, it is the homely, unpolished Abe who catches Mary's fancy, much to her sister's chagrin.

Although she bore her husband three children, Enghien later claimed she committed adultery with different men in order to justify locking her away at Châteauroux, but the charge was widely disbelieved: Saint-Simon, while admitting that she was homely and dull, praised her virtue, piety and gentleness in the face of relentless abuse.

Although Barbara was not beautiful — her homely looks were thought by observers to cause the prince a visible shock when he was first presented to her — ' Ferdinand the Learned ' ( as he was called ) became deeply attached to her, sharing her passion for music.

Because Marla is homely, he rejects her, but Dottie and Kit refuse to go on without her, and her father makes an impassioned plea.

The first effort at a pilot presentation for a television series was based on a comedic conceit that the homely Diana Prince saw herself as a gorgeous Amazon whenever she becomes Wonder Woman — although no one else sees such a change in her looks.

Cyril frequently protests when Betty attempts to diet, as he prefers her " homely and comfortable " figure.

Cvijić often said that in his childhood years his spiritual education was mostly influenced by his mother and her family in general, they were quiet, composed and homely, while he wrote with far less emotions about his father and father's family.

" Her homely sayings and her recipes for pumpkin scones were quoted in the media.

The author makes a point of telling us that Vinnie is not beautiful — perhaps rather homely — but that she has had her share of affairs nevertheless, and a brief marriage.

She appeared on two consecutive episodes of Seinfeld as unemployment counselor Lenore Sokol, who must deal with George Costanza, who tries to get her to approve an extension of his benefits by dating her homely daughter, who ends up rejecting him.

Ben's eyes strained with the bitter hurt, his homely face slashed with gray and crimson.

When a character in Aristophanes ' Knights says, " I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head — out of a ladle ," the homely and realistic ladle brings the ineffable moment to ground with a thump.

Stanley Baldwin, a master of the radio broadcast in the 1920s and 1930s, reached a national audience in his talks filled with homely advice and simple expressions of national pride.

Mr Collins recovers and promptly becomes engaged to Elizabeth's close friend Charlotte, a homely woman with few prospects.

In appearance he was homely, with a nose that he called " my most prominent feature.

He says that the boy, Theaetetus, is a young Socrates look-alike, rather homely, with a snub-nose and protruding eyes.

The grandeur of the Billiard Room, Queen's Dining Room and the Drawing Room on the ground floor forms a marked contrast with the much more homely and unassuming decor of the royal apartments on the first floor.

It was on this occasion that Kruger, referring to the London Convention, spoke of Queen Victoria as a kwaaje Vrouw ( angry woman ), an expression which caused a good deal of offence in England at the time, but which, to any one familiar with the homely phraseology of the Boers, obviously was not meant by President Kruger as insulting.

Mr. Judge addressed the common man in homely language and with simple

Among a few intimate associates, he left a memory singularly dear ; having been in companionship, although susceptible and obstinate when his religious creed — a devout Christianity with Swedenborgian admixtures — was crossed or slighted, yet in other things genial and sweet-tempered beyond most men, full of modesty and playfulness and withal of a homely dignity, a true friend and a kind master, a pure and blameless spirit.

His subjects, too, were no longer the homely things of the genre-painter: with his broader method he attempted the portrayal of scenes from history, suggested for the most part by the associations of his foreign travel.

Books devoted to the homely beliefs of the peasantry are filled with incidents of pixie manifestations.

Recurring characters included the Friday Night Girls ( Walsh and Jones ), a homely, dateless pair of female friends whose Friday nights rarely consisted of anything more exciting than riding the Metrobus ; Dakey Dunn ( Walsh ), an unexpectedly insightful macho lout ; Frank Arsenpuffin ( Andy Jones ), a hapless talk show host faced with a succession of horrifying guests ; Marg at the Mental ( Sexton ), a patient in a psychiatric hospital ; and Jerome and Duncan ( Sexton and Malone ), a flamboyant pair of gay lawyers.

The benediction " Peace be to this house ", with which, in accordance with apostolic usage, he greeted every dwelling he entered, was not inappropriate to his figure and aspect, and it is said he took the people's attention wonderfully, the more especially after the magic of his personality found opportunity to reveal itself in close and homely intercourse.

The manager of Bayview is Harvey Baines who runs the establishment with his assistant, the homely, spinsterish and pious Jane Edwards.

Martin's tracts are characterized by violent and personal invective against the Anglican dignitaries, by the assumption that the writer had numerous and powerful adherents and was able to enforce his demands for reform, and by a plain and homely style combined with pungent wit.

He combines a vivid sense of beauty with affection for the homely, keen zest for life and adventure with a rare appreciation of the common, universal pleasures, and finds in those simple things of daily life a precious quality, a dignity and a wonder that consecrate them.

::' I heartily wish those venerable Odes were still extant, which Cato informs us in his Antiquities, used to be sung by every guest in his turn at the homely feasts of our ancestors, many ages before, to commemorate the feats of their heroes.

The magnificent piece in praise of winter, the solemn and beautiful cadences of " Departure ," and the homely but elevated pathos of " The Toys ," are in their manner unsurpassed in English poetry.

Within their households they worshiped the deities who oversaw these homely concerns.

Historian Howard Zinn offers, as an example, the adage " Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely " as indication of Franklin's belief in the legitimacy of controlling the sexual lives of servants for the economic benefit of their masters.

" In 1819, Thomas Campbell condemned their " worst taste " and " flat and homely phrasing.