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"Homebound" Quotes from Famous Books

... ourselves The thing we like: and then we build it up: As chance will have it on the rock or sand— When thought grows tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... recording, retention, and use of television broadcast programs for educational purposes. They specify periods of retention and use of such off-air recordings in classrooms and similar places devoted to instruction and for homebound instruction. The purpose of establishing these guidelines is to provide standards for both owners and users of copyrighted ...

— Reproduction of Copyrighted Works By Educators and Librarians • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

... figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,— For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... they sit listening to the sounds of the closing day—to the vesper bell in the Valley, to the hum of the trolley bringing its homecomers up from the town; to the drone of the five o'clock whistles in South Harvey, to the rattle of homebound buggies. Twice the daughter starts to speak. The second time she stops the Doctor pipes up, "Let it come—out with it—tell your daddy if anything is on your mind." She smiles up into his mobile face, to find only sympathy ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White