Here, therefore, the young farmer must learn a new artthe art of harnessing and yoking his horses, in such a way as to obtain the greatest possible effect, at the least expense, or with the smallest waste of animal strength.

Thy limbs will shortly be twice as stout as they are now; Then I'll yoke thee to my cart, like a pony in the plough; My playmate thou shalt be; and when the wind is cold Our hearth shall be thy bed, our house shall be thy fold.

So I yoked my oxen and cows to the wagon and drove on.

" THE PLOUGHMAN, THE ASS, AND THE OX A Ploughman yoked his Ox and his Ass together, and set to work to plough his field.

But the farm-bailiff saw them in time, and, hiding him in a cart full of beans, yoked the teams, and drove him to Rome.

While they were yoking the enslaved natives like beasts to the draught, working them to death by thousands in their mines, hunting them with bloodhounds, torturing them on racks, and broiling them on beds of coals, their representations to the mother country teemed with eulogies of their parental sway!

Thereupon the skillful Nala yoked upon the car four excellent steeds of good breed that were, besides, docile and fleet.

Because I gave Honor to mortals, I have yoked my soul To this compelling fate.

330 Let haughty Pharaoh curse with such a reign His fruitful Nile, and yoke a servile train.

My trust is in the kindly courtesy of my host Thorax, of him who to speed my fortune hath yoked this four-horse car of the Pierides, as friend for friend, and willing guide for guide.

It is the business of the punster to discover and yoke together two words, which, while they have some resemblance in sound, the more exact the better, convey a totally different signification.

With the first rift of light in the east I rose from my sleepless bed under the wagonI would not profane her couch inside by occupying itand yoked up my cattle.

Oxen were much wanted, but one of his new colonists had yoked his cows, and it was thought they might be made useful, in a moderate degree, until their stouter substitutes could be reared.

It's yoking an elephant to a zebra.

This man determined to plough with the goats, so he made a little plough and yoked the goats to it, and with it he ploughed a piece of barren upland.

No! the Orator hath yoked The Hours, like young Aurora, to his car: Thrice welcome Presence!

kin yoke up a pair uv ordina'y niggers all right.