home-feeling

I grew up in South Carolina, so there's something so safe and home-feeling about being there.

Kelly Wearstler 2011

A home-feeling comes over one, even in the interior of Africa, at seeing once more cattle grazing peacefully in the meadows.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

It is this sweet home-feeling, this settled repose of affection in the domestic scene, that is, after all, the parent of the steadiest virtues and purest enjoyments; and I cannot close these desultory remarks better, than by quoting the words of a modern

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Whether arriving from the Baltic or the Guadalquivir, I have always a recurrence of the same nameless home-feeling, which renders me at once happy and tranquil.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

And so even the road is to have the home-feeling in it.

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

The quiet dinner with my landlady, the afternoon rest, the fresh toilet, the sort of home-feeling that my room already gave me, all did their part towards bringing back my usual composure before Tom came in the evening; and then, sitting by the window in the little parlor, I could talk rationally of my plans for the future.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

So as I now often sit and listen to the breakers of the grand old Pacific Ocean, I am given an old home-feeling, I am listening, in memory, to the roar of that might water-fall, the Falls of St. Anthony, as they sounded fifty years ago.

Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various

It is singular what a home-feeling and sense of kindred I derived from this hereditary connection and fancied physiognomical resemblance between the old town and its well-grown daughter, and how reluctant I was, after chill years of banishment, to leave this hospitable place, on that account.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

We had visited the English military cemetery formed in Crimean days, and had experienced a strange home-feeling as we read the familiar names on the headstones.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various