Had Coleridge been a man of homely common-sense, he would never have written Christabel.

She began to spend more time with Mrs. Wheaton, and found considerable amusement in her homely common-sense.

This old-fashioned story of the country mouse and the city mouse possesses charm, and abounds in homely common-sense.

She was old-fashioned, yet full of modern impulses and tendencies; warmhearted and impulsive, but rich in homely common-sense.

They say facts are stubborn things, and I'll tell you a few, which to my simple, homely common-sense are conclusive.

He was submitting his intelligence and his will to the homely common-sense of an old peasant whom fifty years of domestic service had scarcely civilized.

'You will never get an apple-tree out of an acorn,' Franklin tells us, with that homely common-sense of his.