home folk
Example Sentences
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The bank did not open in the morning, but Warren Finney said, "All I've got will be used to take care of the home folk first."
From Time Magazine Archive
While the almost fully mobilized Swedish Army trained in earnest, home folk began feverishly to dig huge underground shelters.
From Time Magazine Archive
A group of America's "entertainment ambassadors" abroad brought together to show the home folk their sales pitch.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the dawn we started, and Havelok was thoughtful beyond his wont after we had bidden farewell to the home folk, so that I thought that he grieved for leaving them at the last.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
The home folk like the figures; they imagine they stand for progress, and they know nothing about the conditions.
From The Rhodesian by Page, Gertrude
