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homesickness
1. She caught a note of the surf in the background and a single pang of homesickness struck her
2. that we call homesickness on a number of occasions,
3. "Is there something I can do?" Emma softly questioned, wondering what had brought her to this state, was her homesickness that bad
4. If anything, he suffered from homesickness, boredom, and the resulting irritability
5. of the land sometimes helped keep homesickness at bay
6. their trunks and packages intact, she had not realized the homesickness
7. "I expected to die of homesickness, but it's been jolly!"
8. His real problem was a recurring homesickness and an evident inability to adjust to a new set of circumstances in his life
9. Unpredictably, I had been forced to rent a still larger house from our realtor (owner was a Coast Guard CDR in Alaska who was lowering the price by several grand per month until it sold in April 1992), so when Will succumbed to homesickness at Christmas time, we had plenty of room for him while he attended UConn’s Avery Point branch in Groton spring and summer semesters before daring to live in the notorious Jungle on the Storrs campus that Fall
10. As I lay there, a wave of homesickness came over me
11. " She expressed nostalgia and homesickness for Canada many times
12. As he watched her disappear amongst a crowd of tourists, he found himself running through the frosty encounter and, comparing her cold pale skin and awkward movements to Liloe’s warm glow and supple movements, he felt a stab of homesickness
13. to the rock-and-roll of home, and the homesickness was real as custard in her throat
14. She thought of Cassie and the Daily Grind and felt a wave of brutal homesickness for Wishful wash over her
15. Many say it has to do with his homesickness
16. Petra leaned against the doorjamb, homesickness and loneliness overwhelming her
17. “A few,” she said, squelching the familiar tug of homesickness before it sidetracked her
18. But she was used to homesickness
19. But after the boys were abed, he sat long before his fire with the tired look on his face and the ' heimweh', or homesickness, lying heavy at his heart
20. So he champed at the bit, in the grip of an intense homesickness that could be cured only by our escape
21. I had a sense of what he was suffering because I also was gripped by homesickness
22. Conseil couldn't coax a single word out of him and feared that, in a fit of delirium while under the sway of a ghastly homesickness, Ned would kill himself
23. Over him breaks a wave of homesickness so acute that he has to clamp his eyes
24. It is only a few miles away, and we imagined that in some sudden attack of homesickness he had gone back to his father; but nothing had been heard of him
25. Now that the deed was done, she realized this with a wave of homesickness hard to dispel
26. And what if Jenny’s longing was only a kind of homesickness for the place she couldn’t see she was? What if that other world was already in this one, somehow?
27. It feels like the desperate homesickness I experienced every summer as a kid when my parents dropped me off at sleepaway camp
28. Kathleen felt her homesickness as grief
29. This took dim shape, presently—it was budding homesickness
30. At first she did not know what was the matter with her, but found at length that it was homesickness; although she was many times better off here than at home, still she had a longing to be there
31. Fermina Daza, in fact, had sailed at midnight in the greatest secrecy and with her face covered by a black mantilla, not on a Cunard liner bound for Panama, however, but on the regular boat to San Juan de la Ciénaga, the city where she had been born and had lived until her adolescence, and for which she felt a growing homesickness that became more and more difficult to bear as the years went by
32. Sometimes a passion of homesickness got into his wetbacks
33. It is only a few miles away, and we imagined that, in some sudden attack of homesickness, he had gone back to his father, but nothing had been heard of him
34. And then—in speaking of it afterward, Nancy always declared that it was a positive physiological fact that at that moment her heart was located somewhere in the roof of her mouth—some one caught both her hands in his, some one’s glad voice cried “Nance!” and in the twinkling of an eye the homesickness and the memory of the weeks of wretchedness had vanished, and all the misery of the past and all the uncertainty of the future were swallowed up in the joy of the present