homeward-bound

In the fall of the year, the W.H. Willis started up the Yukon with two hundred homeward-bound pilgrims on board.

Trust 2010

Thousands of foreign troops had left, at that time being homeward-bound Russians, of course.

David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis David Tereshchuk 2011

Thousands of foreign troops had left, at that time being homeward-bound Russians, of course.

David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis David Tereshchuk 2011

I've commuted between Rosslyn and Tysons Corner for years and am constantly amazed at the rare cooperation among drivers on the homeward-bound leg as the traffic converges onto eastbound Interstate 66 from the Dulles Toll Road extension.

Is bad driver behavior at merge points a result of bad design? Post 2010

Thousands of foreign troops had left, at that time being homeward-bound Russians, of course.

David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis David Tereshchuk 2011

Her decks were piled high with freight and baggage, and swarmed with a heterogeneous company of Indians, dogs, and dog-mushers, prospectors, traders, and homeward-bound gold - seekers.

Trust 2010

The stubborn, reliable muscle of his willpower crumbled, leaving him outraged and a little lost in the wide, wintry land he had trod through and tilled all his life, like a homeward-bound sailor who finds himself upon an unknown sea.

GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

The stubborn, reliable muscle of his willpower crumbled, leaving him outraged and a little lost in the wide, wintry land he had trod through and tilled all his life, like a homeward-bound sailor who finds himself upon an unknown sea.

GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

A small AAF support unit arrived soon thereafter, anticipating heavy use of the newly won field by homeward-bound bombers.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

Also important is logging which pathogens humans might be carrying at launch, so that if someone gets sick on the way back from a theoretical future trip to Mars, NASA can quickly determine whether it's a garden-variety human bug or some new kind of Martian flu turning a homeward-bound space vehicle into a "plague ship."

NASA official battles the bugs of space travel 2010