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  • Cain sentenced to the wood-pile for four hours for enquiring of Adam why he called the Yak a Yak when everybody knew he looked more like a Yap.

    The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892

  • The word Yak signifies "one"; and the termination "hi," or "him," is an intensitive which may be rendered in

    The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science 1881

  • Of the several dozen other vertical-landing airplanes the world's militaries have tried to produce, only the Harrier and an old Soviet model called the Yak-36 ever went into production.

    Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane 2002

  • Of the several dozen other vertical-landing airplanes the world's militaries have tried to produce, only the Harrier and an old Soviet model called the Yak-36 ever went into production.

    Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane 2002

  • This animal is called the Yak, and resembles both a horse and a cow.

    Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840

  • We discovered a tiny Tibetan place called Yak cafe which only has two tables and as far as we are aware we appear to be their only customers but the food is fantastic.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Events & Venues Rotorua general manager Peter McLeod says the Yak is a fast and highly manoeuvrable aircraft, and the team has built an exceptional reputation for their exciting and highly skilled performances.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • The telecommunications company says it is on track to launch a still-unnamed core brand and a discount service it has dubbed Yak, the same moniker it currently uses for its wireline segments.

    Wireless Week Headline News 2009

  • I had previously observed that the claws of some of the bear which we had killed here had much shorter tallons than the variagated or white bear usually have but supposed that they had woarn them out by scratching up roots, and these were those which the indians called Yak-kah. on enquiry I found also that a cub of an uniform redish brown colour, pup to a female black bear intermixed with entire white hairs had climbed a tree.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • It's an Xbox Live Arcade game, that costs 400 points about £3.40, and is the newest game from Jeff "Yak" Minter of Llamasoft.

    Space Giraffe tenshi_a 2008

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