40 Metaphors for yon

"Yon, with former and latter, are also adjectives.

" "Marry," quoth Little John to himself, as he strode along, "yon was no such ill happening; Saint Dunstan send me more of the like.

I'm no sayin' yet whether yon's a fault or a virtue.

She answered us not directly, but, gazing after Mr. Stokes, whom Mr. Truelocke was conducting out through the garden, 'Well, my girls,' said she, 'if the tree may be known by its fruits, yon is a right honest man and a true Christian;' and she went on to say how he had only come to warn her and hers of evil that was designed against them.

"Yon was a merry bout, Andrew," he said, and his voice sounded very far away.

Yon is her Cabin, thus far off I'll stand, And call her forth; for my unhallowed hand I dare not bring so near yon sacred place.

What, is not yon my son? YOUNG MARIUS.

and, "Is yon bonny creature her ain bairn?"

" Then again: "Yon's a fine lass," he would say.

" "I knows what I sees; and if yon isn't Misther Strhides, then I am not acquainted with his sthraddle.

CHAPTER IX Yon were grand days, that I spent touring aboot wi' Mac, singing in concerts.

"Yon should be Sir Gilles' watch-fires!"

Let me however beg him in his next book to give the word "yon" a rest; four "yons" in eleven lines is a clear case of overcrowding; and I invite the attention of the Limited Labour Party to this scandal.

Your great oath hath some exceptions: But to our former purpose; yon is Mistress Arthur; We will attempt another kind of wooing, And make her hate her husband, if we can. FUL.

Yon's the dangerous lad.

Ah! yon is Ceres and her company, and a goodly train they appear!

"'Deed and truth, Sur, they is cinder-heaps and slag from the iron-works, Sur; and yon is Merthyr-Tydvil, sure.

Yon is a man's voice, if I mistake not, and a man should be always ready to get himself out from his own pothers.

"Sir." quoth King Arthur to King Angus, "yon is a very strong, powerful, noble knight; now where mayst thou find one who can hope to stand against him in this coming battle?"

But of all them there pictures hanging around, yon is the favourite of myself and the connessoors.

"There," quoth Robin, "yon is a fair mark, lads.

Yon are the beautiful Bertha the Spinner, the queen of Helvetia; ... Who as she rode on her palfrey o'er valley, and meadow, and mountain, Ever was spinning her thread from the distaff fixed to her saddle.

He said nothing at the time, but communed within himself in this wise: "Yon is no friar of orders gray, and also, I wot, no honest yeoman goeth about in priest's garb, nor doth a thief go so for nought.

'Yon is the foe, then?

"I do verily think that yon is no such roseleaf and whipped-cream gallant as he would have one take him to be.

40 Metaphors for  yon