How To Use Yoke In A Sentence
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All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.
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Kelsey fought to maintain control with the yoke that was trying to shake itself out of his hands.
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I felt as though, strong as the yoke of these janizaries and their master looked, I had the death-warrant of imperialism in my pocket.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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yoke the oxen together
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Young people often chafe under the yoke of parental control.
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As with most aircraft stabilizer trim arrangements, the primary system consists of two switches on the yoke.
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El Barzon (the yoke) takes it's name from the revolutionary saying, "the yoke is broken, but the ox goes on".
The middle class revolt
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This full-length jersey has a double shoulder/yoke with full-cut sleeves and underarm gusset, plus elastic ribbed gathers on edges of sleeves.
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The terret would originally have been attached to a chariot yoke, probably serving to guide the reins for a double harness.
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Fifty three years ago India shook off the yoke of British imperialism and became independent.
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I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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Acts xv. 1, and Galatians, passim; these do not judaize, but heathenize, seeking to throw off every yoke, to rid themselves not of the ceremonial law only, but also of the moral; and to break down every distinction separating the Church from a world lying in the wicked one.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
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Every farmer knows how to yoke the oxen together.
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Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
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Yokes and sleeves are obvious choices for a peek-a-boo look, and for evening or vacation wear, consider a midriff inset in a seductive sheer or demure lace.
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The gang tries to throw off the yoke of racist oppression and control their own destinies.
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Indeed the expense and the nature of the gifts - unyoked animals for unmarried goddesses, for example - help to colour in those personalities, their status and importance.
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The boat then sheered off into safety and lay to its oars, a young midshipman, sitting in the stern and holding the yoke-lines, in charge.
The Lost Poacher
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These reforms were intended to free the common man to pursue business opportunities without the oppressive yoke of high interest rates or excessive rents.
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-- "Every Jack will find a Jill, gang the world as it may -- and, at the warst o't, better hae some fashery in finding a partner for the night, than get yoked with ane that you may not be able to shake off the morn.
St. Ronan's Well
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Similarly, the yoke of a 16th-century Russian Orthodox vestment incorporates 14th-century silver plaques from the Golden Horde.
Glories of Gift-Giving Diplomacy
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Shakespeare coined the word "inauspicious," riffing on the Latin auspicium, the art of telling the future by observing the flights of birds: "And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.
The Nation: Top Stories
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I had stated that Sumner Center Church had always been "yoked" with Racine.
Postbulletin.com Local News
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His imperialists are often nasty folk who behaved horribly towards the natives under their yoke.
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Cattle are yoked for and the yoke is essential that they may labor effectually.
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French in Holyoke actually doubles the inhabitancy of the whole town, with what effect upon their own special quarter may easily be imagined.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
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When New York City's 107th mayor declared that "the number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear"—demonstrating in those dark days a decade ago that he would be both crisis manager and consoler in chief— Rudolph Giuliani forever yoked his life to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Giuliani's 9/11 Lessons Still Fresh
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For those who have not been submitted, as we have for four years, to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, in a word the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first Allied troops made their way through our village, and this great event has been for us like the dawn of a resurrection.
Tar-Heel War Record (In the Great World War)
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The only men who behaved unhandsomely on the occasion were some of the Irish members, advocates of Repeal, who, with more than national brass, grounded their declinature on the galling yoke of the Saxon, and retreated to Connemara, doubtless exulting that in this instance at least they had freed themselves from "hereditary bonds.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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So we have the classic odd-couple comedy: two unalike people yoked together.
Times, Sunday Times
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To this machine four miserable garrons, with perhaps a pair of oxen, were yoked abreast.
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They have a large dewlap or fatty lump on the back of the neck which, among other things, is useful for stopping the yoke from slipping off.
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It happens to be yoked with some sophomoric images of violence that a lot of us wish weren't there.
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There are various things to avoid, washer-men's donkeys and pariah dogs, unyoked ticca-gharries, heaps of rubbish, perhaps a leprous beggar.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta
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Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough.
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All while she was unable to violate the yoke of the unprecedented use of the arcane "States Secrets Privilege", invoked by the DoJ in such a draconian fashion that she is still "gagged" from disclosing even innocuous personal details such as her date of birth.
Brad Friedman: EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Ellsberg Says Sibel Edmonds Case 'Far More Explosive Than Pentagon Papers'
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Young people often chafe under the yoke of parental control.
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These can then be yoked together in exotic combinations, rather like accumulator bets.
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A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Georgetown Law School, she was a nonathlete who wound up rowing varsity crew in college, just through sheer force of will.
Marshall Fine: Interview: Filmmaker Mary Mazzio helps kids beat the odds
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It has a tailored collar with top button loop, hemmed sleeves, matte pearl buttons, a double-layer back yoke with pleats, left chest pocket and a clean-finish hem with side vents.
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Ephesus) were seized with the dream of freedom from every yoke; and so virtually "'blasphemed" (compare 1Ti 1: 20) God's name by "speaking evil of dignities" (1Ti 6: 1; 2Pe 2: 10; Jude 8).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It always was and is today, with the exception of a 15-year period from 1969 to 1984 when Sumner Center and Stewartville United Methodist Churches were "yoked" and served by the same pastor.
Postbulletin.com Local News
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Individual senators have little or no incentive to yoke themselves together to advance the national interest.
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True pastors will caution their beloved children in the gospel, not to be unequally yoked.
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The Non Destructive Testing ( NDT ) system is primarily a poke yoke device for the induction hardening process.
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Five copper alloy terrets, strap guiding rings, lay on the line of the yoke.
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He was yoked to an disinclined partner.
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Our first objective was to determine the extent to which bedrock and aspect affected soils of the Holyoke Range.
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Shake it off, and there is fulfilled in the disobedient man the threatening of my text, which rightly translated ought to be, 'Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, and thou _hast_ made instead of them yokes of iron.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
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To complete the magnet, the coils were encased in an iron yoke then wrapped in a 40-millimeter-thick aluminum shell.
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* Caught in this estrogen centrifuge is "Zack" - Dane Cook - pawn of corporate overlords and oppressed caricature of Everyman who toils beneath the yoke of an insufficient hourly wage.
Nothing to report today.
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Maybe you think we're being a little hard on the people of this town, by calling them yokels and inferring that they're nothing more than a bunch of undereducated rubes.
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It still had sticks, rather than control yokes, and got most of its performance out of its light weight.
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Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.
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All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.
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It should also be noted that the base price of each Farm Wagon included whiffletrees, stay chains, wrench, neck yoke or tongue chains, but did not include a seat or a brake.
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For some, it is national freedom: emancipation from the colonial yoke.
Christianity Today
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This is a time full of lessons for those who day to day languish under the oppressive yoke of capitalism.
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The only noise was the snorting of oxen as they pulled against the yoke.
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The Pies wore white guernseys with a black yoke, with black and white striped socks, while Swan Districts wore their traditional black and white stripes.
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Here our roads parting, I took leave of my beloved companion and true yokemate Samuel Eastburn, and reached home the 10th of eighth month, where I found my family well.
VII. 1760
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The Saddle is fitted with yoke-mounted roll-screw and nut elevating gear actuated by handwheels on either side of the saddle.
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Created by the founder of Le Cordon Bleu cookery school, Rosemary Hume – rather than her better-known business partner, celebrity florist Constance Spry, as is often claimed – poulet reine Elizabeth, as it was originally known, was a deliberate and tactful compromise between the luxurious and the thrifty for a country still under the dreary yoke of postwar rationing.
How to cook perfect coronation chicken
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Iron components of the chariot were found in a good state of preservation, including the two wheel rims and hub - hoops, the yoke fittings, harness and horse bits.
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To yoke me as his yokefellow, our crimes our common cause.
Ulysses
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The difficulty rarely lies in any unwillingness to yoke these two things together.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Would to Heaven he was yoked to some tight piece of business, no matter whether well or ill paid, but some job that would hamshackle him at least until the courts rose, if it were but for decency’s sake.’
Redgauntlet
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Use rudders for heading control and only small jabs of the yoke to correct pitch and bank excursions.
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Ready for prompt action, he bent toward his yokemate, and whispered imperiously:
Joshua — Volume 5
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That part of the preflight where we bring the yoke all the way back just isn't happening.
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She saw herself bound to her routine like a bullock to its yoke.
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Ax and hammer handles, as well as wooden axles, whiffletrees, and ox yokes, are examples.
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Medved represents the uninformed and moralistic yokel given a bullhorn — in other words, a doofus for the doofuses to latch onto.
Medved Denied His Meds : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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He rode alone before two large waggons, covered over with tarpaulins stretched on tall arches, pulled by double yokes of oxen.
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Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Well, guess what kids, if the beef industry goes, it's not just going to be the country yokels that are out of a job.
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My feet and hands moved automatically, working the strafing pedals and the control yoke.
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Donations can be made in Cale or Kathleen Darling's name at local Global Credit Union branches, inside Yoke's grocery stores on Road 68 in Pasco and 27th Avenue in Kennewick, and in the flashcube building on Clearwater Avenue in Kennewick.
The News Tribune Blogs
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The term is an antiquated yoke of oppression, politically, culturally and socially.
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I wondered how they yoked a team of horses.
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But if we give a comprehensive glance to the moral progress of society, we shall see that little by little, the yoke is being made easier, in other words, we shall see that nature, or life, moves gradually toward triumph.
The Montessori Method
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Much later, Esther Howland, a resident of Worchester and a college student at Mt. Holyoke during the late 1820s, decided to create her own valentines.
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Gilkie found the yoke wildly bucking as he attempted to hold on to the controls.
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We should yerk the yokel of a Yankee with the knout.
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At this hint the captain put on a martial frown, and looked very big, without speaking; while his yokefellow, with a disdainful toss of her nose, muttered something about
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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'Never you fash your thumb about that, Maister Francie,' returned the landlady with a knowing wink, 'every Jack will find a Jill, gang the world as it may; and, at the warst o't, better hae some fashery in finding a partner for the night, than get yoked with ane that you may not be able to shake off the morn.'
The Proverbs of Scotland
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He learned to make axe-handles, whiffletrees, neck-yokes and crude sleds.
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Spelling and pronunciation are famously at odds, and have been ever since early medieval monks yoked English to the Latin alphabet, which they modified to capture the sounds of a Germanic tongue.
The English Is Coming!
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Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of.
Watershed
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Yokes and sleeves are obvious choices for a peek-a-boo look, and for evening or vacation wear, consider a midriff inset in a seductive sheer or demure lace.
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Keep the yoke or stick full aft to minimize weight on the nosewheel.
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Never from the time yoke was first put upon him had a man succeeded in budging him against his will. it was asserted that he had caused more gray hairs to grow in the heads of the Selbyville farmers than all the mortgages of the past three generations.
Old Baldy
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A market-woman with her jolly brown face and laughing brown eyes — eyes all the softer for a touch of antimony — her ample form clothed in a lively print overall, made with a yoke at the shoulders, and a full long flounce which is gathered on to the yoke under the arms and falls fully to the feet; with her head done up in a yellow or red handkerchief, and her snowy white teeth gleaming through her vast smiles, is a mighty pleasant thing to see, and to talk to.
Travels in West Africa
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People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery.
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I exclaim against the laws which throw the whole weight of the yoke on the weaker shoulders, and force women, when they claim protectorship as mothers, to sign a contract, which renders them dependent on the caprice of the tyrant, whom choice or necessity has appointed to reign over them.
Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
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All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.
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The easiness of the yoke and the lightness of the burden are based on the relationship we have with Jesus.
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Eliot's use of liability both binds a social group through a common concern about producing harm and yokes causality to morality.
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And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
Philippian 4.
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_Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor_, &c. The word here rendered _servants_ means SLAVES, converted to the Christian faith; and the word rendered _yoke_ signifies the _state of slavery_ in which
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
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under the yoke of a tyrant
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The introduction attempts to yoke the pieces together.
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Yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning union, from which the English word yoke is derived.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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The Commandment and the Paraclete are yoked together with a resulting emphasis on discipleship as bearing true witness to Christ.
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Nor could it be said that Christ's yoke is easy, and his burthen light.
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A pair of oxen, yoked together, was used.
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They labored under the delusion that positive reasoning could carry conviction to a people immersed in mystical speculation, crushed by the double yoke of ceremonialism and an inferior social position, and sustained only by the
The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
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Dressed in Wellington boots and a waxed jacket, Mike Robinson, proprietor of the Harwood Arms pub in London and Pot Kiln pub near Newbury, Berkshire, England, whacks some freshly killed fallow deer onto a home-made barbeque, pulls out some chanterelle and wood-blewit mushrooms plucked from the forests that morning, and throws them into another pan with some rich-yoked duck eggs.
A New Breed of Epicurean Delights
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I once read that a good method is to round your lips & try to say 'ee' - that gets pretty close to it - [[User: Ro Thorpe | Ro Thorpe]] 00: 01, 28 November 2008 (UTC): Yup, I remember poor Mr. Neumeister (such a French name!) telling the poor yokel to do it that way (I think), to no avail.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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Once agreement was obtained, two yoked control subjects were selected from the same school the dropout had attended.
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Once the yoke of bondage was removed, we reached out through a network of World Trade Centers in 91 countries and 200 cities, all part of the World Trade Centers Assn.
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The wagon train had decided to halt for another day, quite a few wagons had broken oxen yokes or wheels in the crossing, and it made more sense to make good, strong repairs, then quick, easily re-broken ones.
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Celebrate your freedom from the technological yokes of modern life.
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Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen.
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Yokesleeves ? furnished in aluminum - bronze to reduce operating torque. Most sizes furnished with ball bearing yokesleeves.
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The Bishop of Lincoln granted him the canonry and prebend of Leighton Bromswold, a living which was an easy yoke in terms of duties, affording him the chance to serve in a manner he felt consistent with his powers.
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An oxherd hight Bubulcus, and is ordained by office to keep oxen: He feedeth and nourisheth oxen, and bringeth them to leas and home again: and bindeth their feet with a langhaldes and spanells and nigheth and cloggeth them while they be in pasture and leas, and yoketh and maketh them draw at the plough: and pricketh the slow with a goad, and maketh them draw even.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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At each end of the bridge the rings are cut away to form a chamfer, to which are attached large compression yokes transferring loads to the abutments.
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Unyoked from bondage, loosened from the world, katakiccā
Psalms of the Sisters
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Through the analysis forging defect structure, the main reason causing fold defects of the die flange yoke was the metal refluence by the wrong size of forging deformation.
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I told her I appreciated the vote of confidence, but I know what happens when I sit at a table of genuinely funny people, not family members and appreciative yokels: I become more solemn than Lincoln in his tomb.
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People like you preach tolerance and openmindedness all the time but when it comes to middle America you think we're all evil and stupid country yokels who need your political alignment.
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My Bloody Valentine is as blunt as its serial killer's pickaxe, which is used to kill more small town yokels than I'd ever dreamed possible.
Portland Mercury
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The world canted over on its side as the present slipped out of focus, loosed from the yoke of time.
FLOATING CITY
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Manual handling such as lifting and carrying can be easier and safer if mechanized by using lift tables, conveyors, yokes or trucks.
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He saw the saga of another thrifty and resourceful people who had thrown off the imperial yoke - of Spain, in this case - in the name of liberty.
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They were piled high with supplies and yoked to two matched horned lizards apiece, the kind of dray animals who could handle smooth roads or rough trails with ease.
The Day of the Dissonance
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Three terrets and a slip buckle lay beneath the wheels at a slightly lower level but there were no traces of a yoke.
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Alistair does his duty and reinstates the A11 dualling (conveniently forgetting the A47) but delays it for a year, thinking that will keep us yokels quiet.
A word in your ear, Alistair me old Mucker
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She repeated to him the following words from the third verse of the fourth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Philippians: "I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labor with me in the gospel, whose names are in the book of life.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
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Thos the men, whofe doty it was to diffofe knowlege, fpread thick mHfa of error: they who onght to have elevated the mind, made it ftoop trader the yoke of ancient inftitutions.
The Monthly Review
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These can then be yoked together in exotic combinations, rather like accumulator bets.
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Her subtle interferences -- a mere word yesterday, another the day before -- were having more success than she imagined, not realizing how much they were aided by that frantic untamableness to love's yoke, which, in Hilary only less than in Anna, qualified every word and motion.
Kincaid's Battery
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Ane's the wish yoke's us thegither, ane's the darg that lies afore
Gillie Mor
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The Auto Pact yoked Ontario into the United States economy.
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And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Unlike traditional flight control systems that connect external surfaces like ailerons, rudders and elevators directly to the yokes and rudder pedals in the cockpit, fly-by-wire systems send electrical signals to various controls, instead of a direct mechanical connection.
Four Killed as Gulfstream Jet Crashes
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[113] The commander of the faithful rejected with firmness the idea of pillage, and directed his lieutenant to reserve the wealth and revenue of Alexandria for the public service and the propagation of the faith: the inhabitants were numbered; a tribute was imposed, the zeal and resentment of the Jacobites were curbed, and the Melchites who submitted to the Arabian yoke were indulged in the obscure but tranquil exercise of their worship.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
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Hold the yoke with Wrench 67 Remove the pinion shaft nut and washer.
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I'm working on a pinafore right now, doing counterchange for the yoke from shoulder to waist.
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Often and often I have mused quietly amid scenes where gamblers of various sorts were disporting themselves -- in village inns where solemn yokels played shove-halfpenny with statesmanlike gravity; in sunny Italian streets where lazy loungers played their queer guessing game with beans; in noisy racing-clubs where the tape clicks all day long; on crowded steamboats when
Side Lights
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Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough.
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Even when "yoked" to someone in marriage - as Christ-followers, we are ultimately bearing His yoke... and it *seems* to me, tho I cannot speak from experience, that if both partners are seriously seeking to live after God's own heart, that it really will feel light, for all the seriousness that will need to and should go into putting it on...
Sparks
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Its molded plastic yoke, backed with thick foam padding, wraps around the shoulders and attaches to golf bags in one of two places.
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It features a sueded finish, tailored collar with top button loop, a left chest pocket, and a double layer back yoke with extended shoulders.
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Also, to one side, limped a score or more of foot-sore, yoke-galled, skeleton oxen, that ever paused to nip at the occasional tufts of withered grass, and that ever were prodded on by the tired-faced youths who herded them.
Chapter 12
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As a farmer, you should learn how to yoke the oxen together.
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The waggon stood ready, and Osred scratched the ears of one of the yoked oxen as he waited.
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I grew up under the heavy yoke of religion and its mental slavery to fear, and the economic domination of the church in the name of God.
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My immediate yokemate on the States was John Savage, "Jack," as he was commonly called; a brilliant Irishman, who with Devin Reilley and John
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography
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Lauterbur submitted a paper to the journal Nature outlining his discovery – which he gave the rather grand name of zeumatography, from the Greek word zeugma, or yoke, to signify the fact that the technique links chemical and spatial information.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 - Perspectives
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The Siamese claim to have assumed the name Thăi (free) after they threw off the yoke of the
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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The miserable prisoners, yoked at the neck, their faces burned red by this sudden exposure to the sun after years of darkness, were led up one by one to the carnifex, who took them down into the Carcer and strangled them—thankfully out of sight, but still I could see that Cicero was keeping his face averted and talking fixedly to Hybrida.
CONSPIRATA
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It celebrates the day when Mexico signed their declaration of independence and threw off the yoke of British colonialism, huzzah!
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And best of all ... you'll stay "yoked" 365 days a year.
Wil's Ebay E-Store
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The ` ` bull-train '' took its name from the fact that each of the thirty-five wagons making up a full train was hauled by several yoke of oxen, driven by one man, known as a bullwhacker.
Last of the great scouts; the life story of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") as told by his sister, Helen Cody Wetmore
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This refers to a relationship where two people are "yoked" by a commitment or contract.
Spiritually Unequal Marriage
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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.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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The control yoke must be held fully rearward to maintain the stall.
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They are made of a 100 denier micromesh body, poly porthole mesh yoke and side panels.
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In early times, the farmer made implements and gear, neck yokes, whiffletrees, and wagon boxes with fittings hand forged or bought in a kit.
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I'm not sure that it helps to yoke these two different regions into a single fund.
Times, Sunday Times
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The off ox, finding a yoke sans yokefellow dangling at its neck, is much amazed, not being "broke" to that, and takes to whirling round and round and galloping up and down the barnyard in a manner suggestive of nightmare.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
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A yoke on oxen prevents them from moving away from each other so that they plough the furrow correctly.
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Their gentleness is so absolute, so sweet, that we recognise in it the infancy of that humanity which can remain oppresed by every form of yoke, by every injustice; and the child's love of knowledge is such that it surpasses every
The Montessori Method
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Indian, and white -- from the yoke of the anachronic apartheid regime.
LETTER TO ANGOLA'S DOS SANTOS
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The faithful, mature, reliable draft horse or ox stands still under one side of the doubletree or yoke, while the new, impulsive, willful partner is harnessed.
Finding the Yoke Easy
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(Somehow one always watches that tiny head, and its yoke of yellow around the neck, all lifted marginally above the water's surface, and miss the whipcord of black-banded green that lashes behind.)
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Young people often chafe under the yoke of parental control.
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In addition, the arms are linked through the chest barrel, from shoulder to shoulder, on the yoke of the collarbones, much like an armature, the metal framework on which a sculpture is molded.
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Two hundred years ago, following a slave uprising, Haiti threw off the yoke of bondage to become a free black state and a haven for escaped African slaves.
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We had unyoked the horses and got astride, and when we came to the gate there was the bonny spaewife carrying a bairn in a tartan shawl.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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Using elements as disparate as an overscale man's shirt minus collar, gathered and sheared yokes on coats, and asymmetrical accordion pleats, she created a collection as elegant as it was personal.
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And, amidst the towering peaks of the Worldspine, a dragon has freed itself from bondage and plots to free all of dragonkind from humanity's yoke once and for all.
The King of the Crags by Stephen Deas
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It began with an aluminum alloy frame, barrel shroud and yoke, which is a remarkable feat of engineering skill, but knowledgeable shootists have been expecting something like this for years.
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Chairs imported from New England, particularly Boston, influenced the design of this chair, especially in its stretchers, relatively light seat rails, and yoked crest.
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It is a word extracted from a Sanskrit term meaning "to yoke" or "to join" and in the sage Patanjali's explorations of the subject, the "asana" or poses are only one of eight different major "limbs.
Yoga, Flexibility, and Spirit
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To draw a heavy plough through wet clay soil, a pair of oxen, yoked together was used.
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The second thing to consider is the very nature of the discipleship yoked upon God's people in Christ.
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The engines were run up to 2500 rpm with the yokes held hard back and both men clinging to the bucking columns.
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Iron components of the chariot were found in a good state of preservation, including the two wheel rims and hub - hoops, the yoke fittings, harness and horse bits.
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The slender stories yoked together had the feel of upmarket fanzine writing.
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He was yoked to an unwilling partner.
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The word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word yuj, which means to control, yoke, or unite.
SO STRESSED
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People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery.
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The floaty dress made its regular appearance but Pucci cut it sexily onto the body with plunging V-necks and yokes which skirted slimmingly across the hips.
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Teresa was wearing a simple gown of emerald green with a white yoke and a black bow just below her throat.
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It's a triumphant moment of humanity unwilling to bow under the yoke of oppression.
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She confirmed my suspicions of country folk being idiotic yokels as correct.
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The use of the yoke is a natural figure of speech on the lips of a carpenter-turned-teacher.
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Limited government is a cornerstone of America's political institutions and is tightly yoked to the country's founding ideology.
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Ploughmen in clean smock-frocks yoke themselves with ropes to the plough, ribbons and bunches of corn in their hats.
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Eliminate the collar and finish the neckline edge with the yoke lining according to the pattern guidesheet.
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V¹ = v '(1 - 5/4) = - ¼v': the planet wheel, or epicycloidal yoke, then, has the higher speed, so that if it be desired to "gear up," and drive the propeller faster than the engine goes (and this, we believe, was the purpose of the inventor), the pin-wheel must be made the driver; which is the reverse of advantageous in respect to the relative amounts of approaching and receding action.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
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In his monumental De civitate dei, he urges that we lament even over just war: I shall be told that the Imperial City has been at pains to impose on conquered peoples not only her yoke but her language also, as a bond of peace and fellowship ...
Archive 2009-08-01
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Yet, in this instance, women evidently yoked custom to modernity in order to circumvent a Christian prohibition.
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Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother: and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Genesis 27.
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How can one fail to understand that this fraternisation, with all its razzle-dazzle, is an insult to everything new the recent insurrections have been able to bring to an Arab world crushed under the yoke--an insult to the youth of Tahrir Square in Cairo, who demonstrated for weeks on end without uttering the shadow of an anti-western, anti-American, or anti-Israeli slogan?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: "Oh ! The Fools!"* (On a Palestinian Munich)
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The word yoga comes from Sanskrit and means “to yoke” or “to unite.”
Forever Young
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A yoke on oxen prevents them from moving away from each other so that they plough the furrow correctly.
