But their surfaces bear witness to homely labor: Topping the tallest stone, once part of a trilithon, is a tenon—half of a mortise-and-tenon joint borrowed from woodworking.
She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations
Dany ignored the bloodrider's outburst. This old, homely, thickbodied woman did not look like a maegi to her. Where did you learn your healing, Mirri Maz Duur?