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5 examples of yearsley in sentences
[Footnote 7: BURNS, and Mrs. YEARSLEY.
Who now reads the verses of Ann Yearsley, the poetic milkwoman, who was so lauded beyond her deserts, by Mrs. H. More?few or none.
[Mrs. Yearsley.]
You are not only benevolence itself, but, with fifty times the genius of a Yearsley, you are void of vanity.
Dame Yearsley reminds me of the Troubadours, those vagrants whom I used to admire till I knew their history; and who used to pour out trumpery verses, and flatter or abuse accordingly as they were housed and clothed, or dismissed to the next parish.