yokemate

“Page 26 income than was good for him — seeing that the per diem then paid Congressmen was altogether insufficient — and during the earlier days of his sojourn in the national capital he cut a wide swath; his principal yokemate in the pleasures and dissipations of those times being Franklin Pierce, at first a representative and then a senator from New Hampshire.”

Marse Henry : an autobiography,

“I noticed later that he always looked at people sidewise, as a work-horse does at its yokemate.”

My Antonia

“Here our roads parting, I took leave of my beloved companion and true yokemate Samuel Eastburn, and reached home the 10th of eighth month, where I found my family well.”

VII. 1760

“Hardy were hurrying their horses through, when the youngest dog, nose to the ground and tugging his yokemate along, let go a cry of discovery and began to dig furiously under a bottom rail.”

The Flower of the Chapdelaines

“My immediate yokemate on the States was John Savage, "Jack," as he was commonly called; a brilliant Irishman, who with Devin Reilley and John”

Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography

“Congressmen was altogethr insufficient -- and during the earlier days of his sojourn in the national capital he cut a wide swath; his principal yokemate in the pleasures and dissipations of those times being Franklin Pierce, at first a representative and then a senator from New Hampshire.”

Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography

“Ready for prompt action, he bent toward his yokemate, and whispered imperiously:”

Joshua — Volume 5

“A yokemate for Jerome, according to Sylvie, meant a stupid, rich and ugly girl who would let herself be governed.”

The Celibates