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  • Then he unyoked the bullocks and led them to the small pool of water near which we had stopped, giving them each a handful of hay.†   (source)
  • But gold was suddenly nothing to Wang Lung when he looked at this ox, and he passed it over to the farmer's hand and he watched while the farmer unyoked the beast, and Wang Lung led it away with a rope through its nostrils, his heart burning with his possession.†   (source)
  • They unyoked the horses and galloped after them.†   (source)
  • We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.†   (source)
  • There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Fritz, having unyoked the oxen and secured them to trees, hurried to his brother's assistance.†   (source)
  • Our beasts were quickly unyoked, the tent arranged, a large fire lit, supper prepared, and we dispersed in various directions, some to cut bamboos, and some to collect sugar-cane.†   (source)
  • Iris who runs on wind halted and unyoked the team and tossed them heavenly fodder.†   (source)
  • The carter got down and with all speed unyoked the mules, and the keeper called out at the top of his voice, "I call all here to witness that against my will and under compulsion I open the cages and let the lions loose, and that I warn this gentleman that he will be accountable for all the harm and mischief which these beasts may do, and for my salary and dues as well.†   (source)
  • My lord, our army is dispersed already: Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up, Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place.†   (source)
  • He handed the woman over to his men and let them carry the tripod by its rings, while he unyoked the team.†   (source)
  • The carter at once unyoked the oxen and left them to roam at large about the pleasant green spot, the freshness of which seemed to invite, not enchanted people like Don Quixote, but wide-awake, sensible folk like his squire, who begged the curate to allow his master to leave the cage for a little; for if they did not let him out, the prison might not be as clean as the propriety of such a gentleman as his master required.†   (source)
  • Until the sun stood at high noon in heaven, spears bit on both sides, and the soldiers fell; but when the sun passed toward unyoking time, the Akhaians outfought destiny to prevail.†   (source)
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  • Phil gripped the yoke, sweat streaming down his face.†   (source)
  • When he saw what was coming, he hopped off the yoke and walked alongside.†   (source)
  • If ever there had been a time for the American worker to cast off the yoke, surely that was it.†   (source)
  • The Fates had him in their yoke again.†   (source)
  • She was wearing wool slacks and a beautiful sweater with an elaborate snowflake pattern around the yoke.†   (source)
  • The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full.†   (source)
  • Pushing his beak through the hole, he pulled out morsels of white and yoke.†   (source)
  • Eamon says, Dear Lulu, If this McCaffrey is that tall that he's pushing his yoke against your belly button I suggest you find a smaller man who will slip it between your thighs.†   (source)
  • I grew up with the yoke of apartheid around my neck in many ways, and I am extremely bitter about that.†   (source)
  • My guilt was a yoke around my neck.†   (source)
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  • 7-standard gravity on my shoulders like the yoke of my workout machine.†   (source)
  • Holmes and Yoke had stayed at the Walker House: "G.†   (source)
  • Like a wagon on the road when its yoke has split, I stand immobile on the road.†   (source)
  • Just having the tickets in hand lifted a yoke from our shoulders.†   (source)
  • He would not simply free the Israelites from a foreign yoke, he would save all mankind from sin and blame—and not least, from death.†   (source)
  • She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.†   (source)
  • Anion stopped by the yoke, and Percy set to work with the reins and harness.†   (source)
  • Cat 'e no yoke.†   (source)
  • Poor girl, she herself was suffering cruelly enough beneath the same yoke she had helped to lay on the children.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio had put his neck into the marital yoke.†   (source)
  • Ryan pushed forward on the yoke.†   (source)
  • Working this hard to improve life in their village, rather than chasing the inscrutable goals of foreign climbers, was a pleasure, Twaha told Mortenson, grinning up from under the yoke beside his father.†   (source)
  • "Sugargirl don't leave me here/ Cotton balls to choke me/Sugargirl don't leave me here/ Buckra's arms to yoke me."†   (source)
  • ' "They pay a tribute of horses," he answered, "and send many yearly to Mordor, or so it is said; but they are not yet under the yoke.†   (source)
  • The only person not to be found anywhere was the count, who had taken advantage of the tumult to pack his bags, yoke the horses to his carriage, and leave discreetly for the hotel in town.†   (source)
  • If she only knew how tormented he was by uninvited images: Hema in bridal sari weighed down with ten-sovereign gold necklace; Hema seated next to ugly groom, garlands piled around their necks like the yoke on water buffalo ….†   (source)
  • With the sleds and eighty yoke of oxen, he was now ready to push on.†   (source)
  • For, beloved friends, remember that God states in the Bible, 'My yoke is easy and my burden is light.'†   (source)
  • In a clock tick, the future was no longer a kingdom of possibility and wonder, but a yoke of obligation—and only the unattainable past offered a hospitable place to live.†   (source)
  • For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.†   (source)
  • He had never intended going anywhere, he had wanted to be free of progression, free of the yoke of a straight line, he had never wanted his years to add up to any sum-what had summed them up?†   (source)
  • Nelson tightens his grip on the reins and braces himself against the yoke.†   (source)
  • Was this her idea of "throwing off the yoke of oppressor man?"†   (source)
  • With the city off to one side and the moon directly above, I hope I don't walk crookedly, like a Dutch milkmaid with one bucket at the end of her yoke and the other balanced on her head.†   (source)
  • Fear of the federal yoke would produce the same resistance as the dread of a foreign yoke.†   (source)
  • We're going to yoke us up next to Solomon?†   (source)
  • Oscar and Lieutenant Corson harnessed up the water buffalo, backing it into its yoke, and Eddie was busy tying rucksacks and sleeping gear to the cart.†   (source)
  • The saddle rigs were complex; each pair of legs had a leather yoke over it and the load was distributed by poles flexing laterally, one on each side, and mounted on this was a chair with a back, a padded seat, and arm rests.†   (source)
  • No, it's all right, I thought the yoke puckered a bit.†   (source)
  • As soon as the animals had drunk he put the yoke back.†   (source)
  • Then the weight of the stricken pilot on the yoke forced the Zero down, ducking under the bomber.†   (source)
  • He believed this woman could be Holmes's latest wife, Georgiana Yoke.†   (source)
  • The weight of those spells was dragging at my neck like a yoke.†   (source)
  • If Phil kept his feet on the yoke and pushed hard, he could stop the plane from flipping.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Rodius explained that she and Yoke had become friends.†   (source)
  • Every day was a new struggle to yoke him to our purpose, keep him straight in his furrow.†   (source)
  • In another entry he described a visit from his latest wife, Georgiana Yoke.†   (source)
  • At the yoke was Paul Tibbets, a veteran bomber pilot.†   (source)
  • When the officer took the yoke, Louie began tugging the chains, making the plane swoop up and down.†   (source)
  • He put both feet on the yoke and pushed as hard as he could.†   (source)
  • The war left the Disputed Lands a waste, and freed Lys and Myr from the yoke.†   (source)
  • Papa clucked to Solomon and he leaned into yoke.†   (source)
  • You're going to be the one pulling this yoke, and therefore I don't have any of the pressure.†   (source)
  • Hanging from the yoke Hazel/318 was a sign that read: ONLY ONE LEFT IN STOCK.†   (source)
  • "Meester Pigvig, 'e vant you t'ink all vun peeg yoke; make you prave.†   (source)
  • The yoke was solid hickory and it weighed near as much as me.†   (source)
  • Always wanted a yoke of matched Holstein oxen to take to Rutland.†   (source)
  • "I can yoke our ox by myself, too," I said.†   (source)
  • I kissed each one of them on the brow, and went outside to yoke up the ox.†   (source)
  • They backed into me, and started fighting the yoke.†   (source)
  • Papa had gone to the barn to yoke Solomon, to drive me to the Tanner place.†   (source)
  • Then I went round to the tackroorn to get his yoke and stays.†   (source)
  • I can't put the yoke up on his shoulders by myself.†   (source)
  • It was all I could do to get the yoke on him.†   (source)
  • He walked round the barn a yoke of times, and come to a final rest on the South side of it.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tanner nodded to a yoke of Herefords and said they'd weigh up about a ton each.†   (source)
  • I see one of them has a large raw patch on its shoulder where the yoke has rubbed the skin off.†   (source)
  • She had filled two buckets and hung them on a yoke across her left shoulder.†   (source)
  • He leaped down and lifted the yoke preparatory to watering his animals.†   (source)
  • His father swung the yoke into place and dropped the hitch pin through and slid onto the seat beside him.†   (source)
  • The small of his back narrowed into his belt, then there was just a little swell, nicely defined by the back yoke and the pockets.†   (source)
  • They chugged around to the front of the barn, where Claude set the chainsaw and gasoline in the wagon and stepped onto the yoke.†   (source)
  • I think she would have gone right on collecting them into eternity until they hung from her neck like a yoke on an ox if the high gods had not stopped her.†   (source)
  • He brought along his assistant, Benjamin Pitezel, and his new fiancée, the small and pretty Miss Georgiana Yoke.†   (source)
  • Geyer showed his photographs to the hotel's proprietor, a Mrs. Rodius, who recognized Holmes and Yoke but not the children.†   (source)
  • Holmes, newly free and land rich, brought a new woman to the fair, Georgiana Yoke, whom he had met earlier in the year at a department store, Schlesinger & Meyer, where she worked as a saleswoman.†   (source)
  • Because pilots usually manned the yoke with their left hands while their right hands worked the other controls, B-24 pilots were instantly recognizable when shirtless, because the muscles on their left arms dwarfed those on their right arms.†   (source)
  • In one conversation Yoke had told her that her husband was "a very wealthy man, and that he owned real estate and cattle ranches in Texas; also had considerable real estate in Berlin, Germany, where they intended to go as soon as her husband could get his business affairs into shape to leave."†   (source)
  • Once again he picked up the children's trail and the parallel registrations of Holmes and Yoke, but now he discovered something even stranger—that during this same period Carrie Pitezel and her two other children, Dessie and baby Wharton, had also checked into a Detroit hotel, this one called Geis's Hotel.†   (source)
  • He was soon absorbed in all manner of projects and improvements, working with several hired men—" the help," as New Englanders said—building stone walls, digging up stumps, carting manure, plowing with six yoke of oxen, planting corn and potatoes.†   (source)
  • He walks to the inside of the road, guiding them with his right hand, holding the reins to the side of the yoke.†   (source)
  • O Solomon don't leave me here Cotton balls to choke me O Solomon don't leave me here Buckra's arms to yoke me Solomon done fly, Solomon done gone Solomon cut across the sky, Solomon gone home.†   (source)
  • The largest of them showed the last survivors of a defeated Valyrian army passing beneath the yoke and being chained.†   (source)
  • Resourceful, handy with tools, they could drive a yoke of oxen or "hove up" a stump or tie a proper knot as readily as butcher a hog or mend a pair of shoes.†   (source)
  • It was Pedro Tercero Garcia, who hadn't wanted to miss his grandfather's funeral and took advantage of the borrowed cassock to harangue the workers house by house, explaining that the coming elections were their chance to shake off the yoke under which they had always lived.†   (source)
  • In answering its summons, I slipped the yoke back around my neck; indeed, I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the crises that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears—the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self.†   (source)
  • Ryan pushed the yoke to the stops.†   (source)
  • Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.†   (source)
  • After a moment, Reba joined her, and they hummed together in perfect harmony until Pilate took the lead: O Sugarman don't leave me here Cotton balls to choke me O Sugarman don't leave me here Buckra's arms to yoke me….†   (source)
  • I'm giving it to You, and You're going to handle this stress, because You're the one who is plowing the field, and You take this yoke from me.†   (source)
  • All we needed to do was follow Him—the yoke was used for leading cattle or oxen, plowing or pulling a cart.†   (source)
  • "It's not right," "Haven Peck," said Mr. Tanner, "what I really come here for is to ask you to help me yoke these two demons come fall.†   (source)
  • I cut a fresh sassafras tree and prepared it so as it could boil into a new bow for Solomon's yoke, and bored a hole in both ends for the cotter pins.†   (source)
  • If they judge hogs and judge oxen at the same time, your place is with Tanner's yoke and not your own pig.†   (source)
  • From the town of Learning, a perfect yoke of matched yearlings by name of Bob and Bib, owned by Mr. Benjamin Franklin Tanner, and worked in the ring by Mr. Robert Peck.†   (source)
  • Instead, he found he had only exchanged the oppression of the former state for the new, much harsher yoke of the revolutionary superstate.†   (source)
  • Here she squatted quickly, setting the pails on the earth floor, took the yoke off her shoulder, straightened up, and dried her hands with a small handkerchief.†   (source)
  • The bullocks have found their own rhythm now, moving so that their hoofs strike the earth together and the yoke is borne steadily on their shoulders: we are travelling fast.†   (source)
  • So we stopped to look at the toy and indeed it was a pretty thing, lovingly made and exactly like a real cart, the wood skilfully carved, with painted spokes to the wheels and a yoke which moved on the necks of the painted oxen.†   (source)
  • He strapped the yoke to the, shafts, wound the slack and knotted the end of the metal-studded strap around one of them, then, one leg braced against the horse's flank, pulled the two ends of the stiff collar tight and fastened them.†   (source)
  • It's so strange that these people who once liberated mankind from the yoke of idolatry, and so many of whom now devote themselves to its liberation from injustice, should be incapable of liberating themselves from their loyalty to an obsolete, antediluvian identity that has lost all meaning, that they should not rise above themselves and dissolve among all the rest whose religion they have founded and who would be so close to them, if they knew them better.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow she would fit the yoke about her neck.†   (source)
  • It is looking to the day when it shall have all mankind under the yoke of Krupp and Kultur.†   (source)
  • The tracks lay before him-not in double rows now but in a single yoke.†   (source)
  • The yoke was set with chrysolites and jewels.†   (source)
  • I would wish him three crowns rather than one, And as for the bishops, it is not my yoke That is laid upon them, or mine to revoke.†   (source)
  • Upon his plow and upon the ox's yoke and upon the two buckets in which he carried his fertilizer and his water, upon each of these he pasted a square.†   (source)
  • At their feet they could see the grass of the outer bailey—it was horrible looking down on it—and a small foreshortened man, with two buckets on a yoke, making his way across to the menagerie.†   (source)
  • I can hear the stick striking; I can see it hitting their heads, the breast-yoke, missing altogether sometimes as they rear and plunge, but I am glad.†   (source)
  • …habit of the senses and nerves of the gambler waiting to take what he can from what he sees, but a certain reserved and inflexible pessimism stripped long generations ago of all the rubbish and claptrap of people (yes, Sutpen and Henry and the Coldfields too) who have not quite yet emerged from barbarism, who two thousand years hence will still be throwing triumphantly off the yoke of Latin culture and intelligence of which they were never in any great permanent danger to begin with.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung had been struck with its strong neck and noticed at once the sturdy pulling of its shoulder against the wooden yoke and he called out, "That is a worthless ox!†   (source)
  • It had been a misdoubtful night, with the storm making; a night when a fellow looks for most anything to happen before he can get the stock fed and himself to the house and supper et and in bed with the rain starting, and when Peabody's team come up, lathered, with the broke harness dragging and the neck-yoke betwixt the off critter's legs, Cora says "It's Addie Bundren.†   (source)
  • As she stood there, it seemed as though a yoke descended heavily upon her neck, felt as though a heavy load were harnessed to it, a load she would feel as soon as she took a step.†   (source)
  • And Wang Lung went again into the town and he bought pork fat and white sugar and the woman rendered the fat smooth and white and she took rice flour, which they had ground from their own rice between their millstones to which they could yoke the ox when they needed to do so, and she took the fat and the sugar and she mixed and kneaded rich New Year's cakes, called moon cakes, such as were eaten in the House of Hwang.†   (source)
  • The yoke snapped with a twang, and they lumbered off together.†   (source)
  • "What is that?" it sounded like, "—cut-yoke—sack-back—"†   (source)
  • I'll tell him I'm ready for the yoke—only give me back Fay—and—and I'll marry Tull!"†   (source)
  • What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?†   (source)
  • To put all twenty yoke of us to the big gun as soon as Two Tails trumpets.†   (source)
  • What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door?†   (source)
  • The seventh pair had a new yoke, and they looked rather stiff and tired.†   (source)
  • The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?†   (source)
  • Nay, nay, I'll never slip my neck out o' the yoke, and leave the load to be drawn by the weak uns.†   (source)
  • 'So would I,' said Miss Ledrook; 'I would rather court the yoke than shun it.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, I will try to bear up under the yoke.†   (source)
  • 'Call him forth and I will give him a bond on my best yoke, so that the child is cured.'†   (source)
  • He said he was no longer a boy, and every day made his yoke more galling.†   (source)
  • Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!†   (source)
  • And he will bring the peoples of the heathen under his yoke to serve him….†   (source)
  • One longed to throw off that yoke that crushed us, all decent people among us.†   (source)
  • His yoke-steeds, it was observed, were black, while the trace-mates were snow-white.†   (source)
  • The Mormon creed might survive, but that part of it which was an affront to nature, a horrible yoke on women's necks, was doomed.†   (source)
  • 'The unwieldy old man, lowering his big forehead like an ox under a yoke, made an effort to rise, clutching at the flintlock pistols on his knees.†   (source)
  • The country children thereabouts wore their dresses to their shoe-tops, but this city child was dressed in what was then called the "Kate Greenaway" manner, and her red cashmere frock, gathered full from the yoke, came almost to the floor.†   (source)
  • God's yoke was sweet and light.†   (source)
  • The answers of these Mormon women had been not altogether unexpected by him, but once spoken in cold blood under oath, how tragic, how appallingly significant of the shadow, the mystery, the yoke that bound them!†   (source)
  • —Well, I suppose that doesn't interest you, but leastways there was such noise after the match that I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift for, as luck would have it, there was a mass meeting that same day over in Castletownroche and all the cars in the country were there.†   (source)
  • And you receivers – and you are all receivers – assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives.†   (source)
  • Then a few lights twinkled in the darkness that enveloped the cabins; a woman's laugh strangely broke the silence, profaning it, giving the lie to that somber yoke which seemed to consist of the very shadows; the voices of men were heard, and then the slow clip-clop of trotting horses on the hard trail.†   (source)
  • Children of the Camp are we, Serving each in his degree; Children of the yoke and goad, Pack and harness, pad and load!†   (source)
  • ALL THE BEASTS TOGETHER Children of the Camp are we, Serving each in his degree; Children of the yoke and goad, Pack and harness, pad and load.†   (source)
  • The gun bullocks rolled their cuds, and answered both together: "The seventh yoke of the first gun of the Big Gun Battery.†   (source)
  • They plunged forward in the mud, and managed somehow to run their yoke on the pole of an ammunition wagon, where it jammed.†   (source)
  • Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun, while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind.†   (source)
  • We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.†   (source)
  • I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won't go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.†   (source)
  • GUN BULLOCKS Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball, And what they know of powder upsets them one and all; Then we come into action and tug the guns again— Make way there—way for the twenty yoke Of the Forty-Pounder train!†   (source)
  • I rested my temples on the breast of temptation, and put my neck voluntarily under her yoke of flowers.†   (source)
  • So they emancipate themselves, break the yoke of the architect, and take themselves off, each one in its own direction.†   (source)
  • There'll maybe come a time when you may make him feel; it'll never come to me; I'n got my head under the yoke.†   (source)
  • As they pursued their walk in silence, under the row of houses, where the deeper gloom of the evening effectually concealed their persons, no sound reached them, excepting the slow tread of a yoke of oxen, with the rattling of j a cart, that were moving along the street in the same direction with themselves, The figure of the teamster was just discernible by the dim light, lounging by the side of his cattle with a listless air, as if fatigued by the toil of the day.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I am convinced that democratic nations are most exposed to fall beneath the yoke of a central administration, for several reasons, amongst which is the following.†   (source)
  • If Texas became peopled with an American population; it was by no contrivance of our government, but on the express invitation of that of Mexico herself; accompanied with such guaranties of State independence, and the maintenance of a federal system analogous to our own, as constituted a compact fully justifying the strongest measures of redress on the part of those afterwards deceived in this guaranty, and sought to be enslaved under the yoke imposed by its violation.†   (source)
  • 'Nobody better than you, I am persuaded,' answered Mrs. Bumble: who did not want for spirit, as her yoke-fellow could abundantly testify.†   (source)
  • But giving up that intolerable earthly yoke that some men call freedom is perhaps less painful than you think!†   (source)
  • The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois.†   (source)
  • The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature; and the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home.†   (source)
  • Books occupied me so much that but little carpentering was done, yet I made a yoke for the oxen, a pair of cotton-wool carders, and a spinning-wheel for my wife.†   (source)
  • Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden — oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height,…†   (source)
  • "Well, dearest, to-morrow you must be on the look-out, and go and see her, mind, whether she asks you or no," Rebecca said, trying to soothe her angry yoke-mate.†   (source)
  • "Ay, noble sir," said Wamba, "and thence goes the proverb— 'Norman saw on English oak, On English neck a Norman yoke; Norman spoon in English dish, And England ruled as Normans wish; Blithe world to England never will be more, Till England's rid of all the four.'†   (source)
  • It appeared to me, on the contrary, that they attach a sort of pride to the voluntary surrender of their own will, and make it their boast to bend themselves to the yoke, not to shake it off.†   (source)
  • Cassy had always kept over Legree the kind of influence that a strong, impassioned woman can ever keep over the most brutal man; but, of late, she had grown more and more irritable and restless, under the hideous yoke of her servitude, and her irritability, at times, broke out into raving insanity; and this liability made her a sort of object of dread to Legree, who had that superstitious horror of insane persons which is common to coarse and uninstructed minds.†   (source)
  • But the godly farmers hitched ninety yoke of oxen to the abolition schoolhouse and dragged it into the middle of the swamp.†   (source)
  • In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others.†   (source)
  • For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held out to me by the arms of a million of men.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Cedric and Athelstane, the leaders of the troop, conversed together on the state of the land, on the dissensions of the royal family, on the feuds and quarrels among the Norman nobles, and on the chance which there was that the oppressed Saxons might be able to free themselves from the yoke of the Normans, or at least to elevate themselves into national consequence and independence, during the civil convulsions which were likely to ensue.†   (source)
  • It had been my intention to bring a piece of land under cultivation before the next rainy season, to be sown with different sorts of grain; but many unforeseen circumstances had intervened to hinder this, and our animals, unaccustomed to the yoke, were not available for the plough.†   (source)
  • In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the outside, past the trees and the gate.†   (source)
  • Often the lama made the living pictures the matter of his text, bidding Kim—too ready—note how the flesh takes a thousand shapes, desirable or detestable as men reckon, but in truth of no account either way; and how the stupid spirit, bond-slave to the Hog, the Dove, and the Serpent—lusting after betel-nut, a new yoke of oxen, women, or the favour of kings—is bound to follow the body through all the Heavens and all the Hells, and strictly round again.†   (source)
  • We are often startled by the severity of mild people on exceptional occasions; the reason is, that mild people are most liable to be under the yoke of traditional impressions.†   (source)
  • They were under a yoke, — I could free them: they were scattered, — I could reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too.†   (source)
  • He believed himself free; and to have him brought under the yoke of slavery, would be more than I could bear.†   (source)
  • All ages have furnished the spectacle of a people struggling with energy to win its independence; and the efforts of the Americans in throwing off the English yoke have been considerably exaggerated.†   (source)
  • …jealousy and their little rupture; but that Becky never gave the least encouragement to the unfortunate officer, and that she had never ceased to think about Jos from the very first day she had seen him, though, of course, her duties as a married woman were paramount—duties which she had always preserved, and would, to her dying day, or until the proverbially bad climate in which Colonel Crawley was living should release her from a yoke which his cruelty had rendered odious to her.†   (source)
  • I, too, want a harpoon made; one that a thousand yoke of fiends could not part, Perth; something that will stick in a whale like his own fin-bone.†   (source)
  • It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,—this hunger of the heart,—as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.†   (source)
  • "There are traditions still extant among the people of Slavs of the true faith suffering under the yoke of the 'unclean sons of Hagar.'†   (source)
  • Lydgate was bowing his neck under the yoke like a creature who had talons, but who had Reason too, which often reduces us to meekness.†   (source)
  • I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under rather a stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free.†   (source)
  • When America was struggling in the high cause of independence to throw off the yoke of another country, and when it was about to usher a new nation into the world, the spirits of its inhabitants were roused to the height which their great efforts required.†   (source)
  • She liked to feel that this strong, skilful, keen-eyed man was in her power, and would have been indignant if he had shown the least sign of slipping from under the yoke of her coquettish tyranny and attaching himself to the gentle Mary Burge, who would have been grateful enough for the most trifling notice from him.†   (source)
  • The good-looking young woman in clogs, swinging the empty pails on the yoke, ran on before him to the well for water.†   (source)
  • It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain, and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.†   (source)
  • Surely, if you credited one half the truths that are told you concerning the helpless millions suffering in this cruel bondage, you at the north would not help to tighten the yoke.†   (source)
  • Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite.†   (source)
  • The feeblest member of a family—the one who has the least character—is often the merest epitome of the family habits and traditions; and Mrs. Tulliver was a thorough Dodson, though a mild one, as small-beer, so long as it is anything, is only describable as very weak ale: and though she had groaned a little in her youth under the yoke of her elder sisters, and still shed occasional tears at their sisterly reproaches, it was not in Mrs. Tulliver to be an innovator on the family ideas.†   (source)
  • Next he brought the horses, and, hitching them to the chariot, drove to the field of exercise, where, hour after hour, he practised them in movement under the yoke.†   (source)
  • His was one of the natures in which conscience gets the more active when the yoke of life ceases to gall them.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Tulliver, always borne down by the family predominance of sister Jane, who had made her wear the yoke of a younger sister in very tender years, said pleadingly: "I'm sure, sister, I've never asked anybody to do anything, only buy things as it 'ud be a pleasure to 'em to have, so as they mightn't go and be spoiled i' strange houses.†   (source)
  • …about her pale face and pale auburn hair as she held the long brush, and swept, singing to herself in a very low tone—like a sweet summer murmur that you have to listen for very closely—one of Charles Wesley's hymns: Eternal Beam of Light Divine, Fountain of unexhausted love, In whom the Father's glories shine, Through earth beneath and heaven above; Jesus! the weary wanderer's rest, Give me thy easy yoke to bear; With steadfast patience arm my breast, With spotless love and holy fear.†   (source)
  • A despot who should subject the Americans and their former slaves to the same yoke, might perhaps succeed in commingling their races; but as long as the American democracy remains at the head of affairs, no one will undertake so difficult a task; and it may be foreseen that the freer the white population of the United States becomes, the more isolated will it remain.†   (source)
  • Either you slip out of service altogether, and become good for nothing, or you wear the harness and draw a good deal where your yoke-fellows pull you.†   (source)
  • As Messala turned in, the bronze lion's head at the end of his axle caught the fore-leg of the Athenian's right-hand trace-mate, flinging the brute over against its yoke-fellow.†   (source)
  • The thirteen colonies which simultaneously threw off the yoke of England towards the end of the last century professed, as I have already observed, the same religion, the same language, the same customs, and almost the same laws; they were struggling against a common enemy; and these reasons were sufficiently strong to unite them one to another, and to consolidate them into one nation.†   (source)
  • But he felt his neck under Bulstrode's yoke; and though he usually enjoyed kicking, he was anxious to refrain from that relief.†   (source)
  • I tell thee these thy sons of the Desert, though they have separately the speed of eagles and the endurance of lions, will fail if they are not trained to run together under the yoke.†   (source)
  • At the period of which we are now speaking society was shaken to its centre: the people, in whose name the struggle had taken place, conceived the desire of exercising the authority which it had acquired; its democratic tendencies were awakened; and having thrown off the yoke of the mother-country, it aspired to independence of every kind.†   (source)
  • Dorothea was not taken by surprise: many incidents had been leading her to the conjecture of some intention on her husband's part which might make a new yoke for her.†   (source)
  • The patrician was laughing in hearty good-humor; and, seeing there was but one chance of rescue, Ben-Hur stepped in, and caught the bits of the left yoke-steed and his mate.†   (source)
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