Crossword-Solution: HOMECOMINGS 11 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

When she was a girl the sea had been kind to her, it had brought her father home safe, and those homecomings were her pleasantest memories.

Fort Chartres, we are gravely told, was "the center of life and fashion in the West." If everyday existence was humdrum, the villagers had always the opportunity for voluble conversation "each from his own balcony"; and there were scores of Church festivals, not to mention birthdays, visits of travelers or neighbors, and homecomings of hunters and traders, which invited to festivity.

Three centuries had flowed past the old Manor House, centuries of births and of homecomings, of country dances and of the meetings of fox hunters.

And now minstrels came to Ithaka with word of the deaths or the homecomings of the heroes who had fought in the war against Troy.

Among the many verses which voiced the anguish and the patriotism of that stern time, which told of partings and homecomings, of women waiting by desolate hearths, in country homes, for tidings of husbands and sons who had gone to the war, or which celebrated individual deeds of heroism or sang the thousand private tragedies and heart-breaks of the great conflict, by far the greater number were of too humble a grade to survive the feeling of the hour.