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   • 1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., page 319, column 2:

     In the morning a homeward-bound ship passed us hull down,—the first we had seen for months; […]

   • 1858 March 27, “Religio Christi”, in Edmund Deacon, Henry Peterson, editors, The Saturday Evening Post, number 1913, Philadelphia, Pa.: Deacon & Peterson, […], page 4, column 2:

     […] every now and then I reached some favorite haunt of the rich-throated nightingale, and stopped and wondered at the mellow, pensive music of her note; even the cold, dark, treacherous river, wherever my path lay along it, seemed to roll with a louder, cheerlier ripple than I had ever heard it yield before, as if welcoming my homeward-bound feet.

   • 1912, George H. Read, The Last Cruise of the Saginaw, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 2, p. 12,^[1]

     With the homeward-bound pennant flying from the mainmast head and with the contractor’s working party on board, we sailed from the Midway Islands on Friday, October 29, at 4 P.M. for San Francisco.

   • 2019, Gunther Stent, Nazis, Women and Molecular Biology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 290:

     Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government.

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   • 1896, J. M. Barrie, Sentimental Tommy, The Echo Library, published 2007, page 99:

     They passed many merry-makers homeward bound, many of them following a tortuous course, for the Scottish toper gives way first in the legs, the Southron in the other extremity, and thus between them could be constructed a man wholly sober and another as drunk as Chloe.