All 10 Uses of
yoke
in
Middlemarch
- The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?†
Chpt 1 *
- But he felt his neck under Bulstrode's yoke; and though he usually enjoyed kicking, he was anxious to refrain from that relief.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- In her present matronly age at least, Mrs. Garth never committed herself by over-hasty speech; having, as she said, borne the yoke in her youth, and learned self-control.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- Neither law nor the world's opinion compelled her to this—only her husband's nature and her own compassion, only the ideal and not the real yoke of marriage.†
Chpt 5
- His was one of the natures in which conscience gets the more active when the yoke of life ceases to gall them.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- It was because Lydgate writhed under the idea of getting his neck beneath this vile yoke that he had fallen into a bitter moody state which was continually widening Rosamond's alienation from him.†
Chpt 7
- Poor Lydgate! the "if Rosamond will not mind," which had fallen from him involuntarily as part of his thought, was a significant mark of the yoke he bore.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(yoke as in: the yoke of bondage) an oppressive burden