Each from the yoke the smoking steeds untied, And fixed their headstalls to his chariot-side.

But their yoke must go, eventually.

But they went meekly enough under the yoke of the law and passed many a month until it seemed to the litigants that the condition of waiting for a decision was to be their permanent manner of life.

Sometimes if you hitch yourself up with a statistic, you meet the fate of the farmer who put his fool head in the yoke with a skittish steer.

I suppose a fellow can't put off the yoke too long.

And when evening came, the old hearth we'd surround, While you cracked the nuts, which in autumn we found, I tended my kittens, and made up their bed, You made them a yoke and a nice little sled.

First, a church member wishing to turn his negroes into cash, begins by making their yoke heavier, and their life a burden.

And O that in his great mercy and love towards his poor afflicted and helpless children, it might please Him to hasten the coming of that day, even to this generation of the enslaved in your land, in which every yoke shall be broken and the oppressed go free.

Throwing out of calculation the many liberations indirectly resulting from his efforts, we speak more than barely within bounds, when we say, that he has been the means, under Providence, of rescuing at least two thousand human beings from the galling yoke of a slavery, which, but for him, would have been perpetual.

A good ox is known in the yoke, a good woman at the cradle of her child.

Strong yoke-oxen and red milch-cows he'll bring back In the springtime; butter and Tochorton Will be plentiful in the Land of Mösr.

Four wagons were drawn by five yoke of oxen each, while the fifth, the family wagon, was drawn by three yoke.

Four wagons were drawn by five yoke of oxen each, while the fifth, the family wagon, was drawn by three yoke.

Cows were drawn into the yoke and the journey resumed.

Cattle had been rounded up and oxen placed under the yoke.

To him, though it has been attributed to others, belongs the glory or the shame of having said to one, who having re-established his health by a diet of milk and eggs, took a wife:"So, you have been egged on to matrimony: I hope the yoke will sit easy on you.

He scrambled and puffed through the snow till he found a mounting-place upon an unseen fence, when he arose two or three feet above the surrounding surface, and spoke, "There's five on us, an' two yoke.

"Two yoke yender, an' five on us.

"When the Lincolns were getting ready to leave," says Mr. Brooner, "Abraham and his stepbrother, John Johnston, came over to our house to swap a horse for a yoke of oxen.

"Our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.

"At length, the consuls return to the camp, and inform them they could receive no other terms but that of surrendering their arms, and passing under the yoke."Ib., p. 360.

What calls the minstrel, Fatherland? That land, which weeps beneath the yoke Its slaughter'd sons, and foeman's stroke: Land of the stern, unbending oak.

The persuasion was not easy; but at length Fabrice, having been convinced that the clerical yoke would bear but lightly upon him, consented to the step, and as a preliminary spent three years in a theological college at Naples.

'Tis a good thing we Americans have cast off the yoke of royalty," he thought to himself, with a smile.

If I wear an anxious air 'tis because I am not sure that that example can be safely imitated in this country, that those principles can be safely inculcated here, that this people, once having thrown off the yoke of absolute dependence on and obedience to kingly power, will not confound license with liberty.