homeseekers

An overwhelming housing backlog led to the mushrooming of backyard rooms built by property owners to accommodate family members or to rent out to homeseekers.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

A big spaniel had come to us, probably lost by some party of homeseekers.

Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various

Groups of homeseekers were organizing their own bands.

Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

Third, the Germans entered the Roman world not as destroyers, but as homeseekers.

Early European History Hutton Webster

He wanted me to head bands of homeseekers into this new territory, to help colonize it.

Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

When the water was running swift and deep in the ditch the land-hungry homeseekers would fight for ground.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

Every acre of fertile soil in America called to the thrifty agriculturist; every westward flowing river invited to trade and settlement as well, therefore, seek to keep back the ocean with a broom as to stop by mere decree the tide of homeseekers.

The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

By and large, the building of the West was to be the work, not of colonizing companies or other corporate interests, but of individual homeseekers, moving into the new country on their own responsibility and settling where and when their own interests and inclinations led.

The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

Cleaveland with a party of fifty Connecticut homeseekers started off to found a settlement in the Reserve; and the town which took its name from the leader was but the first of a score which promptly sprang up in this inviting district.

The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

And it was by these roadways and waterways that homeseekers soon began to arrive.

The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914