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- noun Alternative spelling of
homesickness .
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Examples
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Because of these matters he even pulled through a light attack of home-sickness, and was as contented a human as ever sailed the seas.
CHAPTER III 2010
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“You are very kind, I am sure,” she murmured; and the very conventionality of her tones and words, with the host of associations it aroused of the old life on the other side of the world, gave me a quick thrill — rich with remembrance but stinging sharp with home-sickness.
Chapter 20 2010
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You regularly stoke my home-sickness for Paris which I called home for ten years.
Yorkshire tag cloud 2007
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He smiles briefly at the thought of Judea and Galilee and feels a twinge of home-sickness.
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Johan: Well, you see, Lona is no longer young, and lately she began to be obsessed with home-sickness; but she never would admit it.
Pillars of Society 2008
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Night and day, winter and summer, it weighs upon me — this irresistible home-sickness for the sea.
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Johan: Well, you see, Lona is no longer young, and lately she began to be obsessed with home-sickness; but she never would admit it.
Pillars of Society 2008
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That, and living with James of course, who puts up with my miserable home-sickness with beautiful grace and understanding.
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In Brooklyn, Green struggled with poverty and bouts of depression that friends say were triggered by a profound home-sickness.
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Night and day, winter and summer, it weighs upon me — this irresistible home-sickness for the sea.
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