Yolland

Wenezenki-Yolland has not got an enviable task – and do not be surprised if her report is predictable and just filed away like so many other “reviews”.

BC Ferries, TransLink not bound by recommendations in government review « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

On the Sergeant describing the place, I recognised it as a cottage inhabited by a fisherman named Yolland, with his wife and two grown-up children, a son and a daughter.

The Moonstone 2003

Looking towards the sand-hills, I saw the men-servants from out-of-doors, and the fisherman, named Yolland, all running down to us together; and all, having taken the alarm, calling out to know if the girl had been found.

The Moonstone 2003

Yolland said, 'Your concern for animals doesn't much inconsnionce your daily life.

The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

Early the next month Colonel Yolland inspected the whole length from Welshpool to Newtown, pausing to express his special approbation of the Kilkewydd bridge {51} as "the best constructed on the line," and it was now open to the Company publicly to announce that from June 10th a through service of trains would run from Oswestry to Newtown and on to Llanidloes.

The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway

Finding this morning that Yolland (who called on me as soon as I had closed the letter to you) was perfectly inclined to go on with the tide observations at Southampton, and that his corporals of sappers were conducting them in the most exemplary manner, I determined on starting at once.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

Yolland, she is very sorry beforehand, and hates Mr. Redmain with all her heart; first, because Hesper Mortimer hates him, and next, but twice as much, because she is going to love him.

Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

Yolland had been installed as Hesper's cousin-companion.

Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

Miss Yolland looked at her calmly, as if waiting for her to finish.

Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

Miss Yolland gave a little laugh, showing about the half of her splendid teeth -- a laugh to which Hesper was accustomed, but the meaning of which she did not understand -- nor would, without learning a good deal that were better left unlearned.

Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864