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At home

noun

A reception held in your own home.

adverb

On the home team's field.

At, to, or toward the place where you reside.

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"At home" Quotes from Famous Books

... picturesque people in their devotions," Millicent said. "I feel almost as pious when I watch a Moslem praying before sunset as I do when a boy's voice is reaching up to heaven in one of our Gothic cathedrals at home. I think I'm at my best then, Mike, only no one is ...

— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer

... apartment unoccupied, introduced a personage whose dress and air, as well as a kind of saddle-bag, which he would not intrust to any other bearer than himself, appeared to denote him as one rather addicted to mercantile than political speculations. Certainly he did not seem much at home among the patriotic reformers, who, having glared upon him for a single moment, renewed, without remark, their several ...

— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... busy world, Where praise and censure are at random hurl'd, Which can the meanest of my thoughts control, Or shake one settled purpose of my soul; Free and at large might their wild curses roam, If all, if all, alas! were well at home. No—'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, When she with more than tragic horror swells Each circumstance of guilt; when, stern but true, She brings bad actions forth into review; 230 And like ...

— Poetical Works • Charles Churchill

... something to be found out at home?" said the elder cousin, blushing very brightly and speaking with the effort of one who speaks ...

— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells

... uncle, perfectly," replied Frank with a smile. "The fact is that I had made up my mind, lately, not to oppose your wishes any longer, but to agree to go into an office at home. Of course it is more agreeable to me to think of ...

— Digging for Gold - Adventures in California • R.M. Ballantyne

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