ho-o-ome

Updated: May 26, 2025

He hadn't nerved himself to play the mouth-organ, not all day, but now, with the luxury of fire and solitude, he played it, and, what's more, he tried to whistle a natty little ballad which touchingly presented a castaway as "long-long-longing for his Michigan, his wish-again ho-o-ome." Yet Father wasn't altogether satisfied with his fire.

Sinclair Lewis - The Innocents: A Story for Lovers

But Mary V could get down on her knees, and he wouldn't be nice to her. He should say not! So dreamed Johnny Jewel, all the way to the mail box out by the main road, and nearly all the way back again. But then his ears were assailed with lugubrious singing: "An' dlead the Great Bear ho-o-ome, An' dlead the Great Bear hoo-me, I'll brand each star with the Rollin' R, An-n dlead the Great Bear home!"

B. M. Bower - Skyrider