homely vs taking

homely

adj
  • Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial. 

  • Personal; private. 

  • Domestic; tame. 

  • On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate. 

  • Characteristic of, belonging to, or befitting a home; domestic, cozy. 

  • Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive. 

  • Conservative and family-oriented. 

taking

adj
  • Alluring; attractive. 

noun
  • A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. 

  • The act by which something is taken. 

  • Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example). 

  • A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). 

How often have the words homely and taking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )