HOMEBOUND • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Homebound

... ourselves The thing we like: and then we build it up: As chance will have it on the rock or sand— When thought grows tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... they sit listening to the sounds of the closing day—to the vesper bell in the Valley, to the hum of the trolley bringing its homecomers up from the town; to the drone of the five o'clock whistles in South Harvey, to the rattle of homebound buggies. Twice the daughter starts to speak. The second time she stops the Doctor pipes up, "Let it come—out with it—tell your daddy if anything is on your mind." She smiles up into his mobile face, to find only sympathy ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White