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  • Gracious Ladies, wee behold it daily, that those Oxen which have laboured in the yoake most part of the day, for their more convenient feeding, are let forth at liberty, and permitted to wander abroad in the Woods.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But by what meanes they shooke off at the length this yoake of seruitude,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Upon which that notable reformation of the Church which we see, hath followed; men not now singlely, as came to passe at the voyce of the foregoing Angel, but by whole Provinces and Tribes at once every where shaking off the yoake of the Beast for the vindication and reformation of

    Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation Benjamin A. Ehlers 1992

  • Harrowes: but Oxen not being in good Husbandry to be separated, because euer two must draw in one yoake, therefore was the double Harrow deuised, containing in substance and worke as much as two single

    The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments Gervase Markham

  • Behold Lucius, thou art delivered from so great miseries, by the providence of the goddesse Isis, rejoyce therefore and triumph of the victory of fortune; to the end thou maist live more safe and sure, make thy selfe one of this holy order, dedicate thy minde to the Obsequy of our Religion, and take upon thee a a voluntary yoake of ministrie:

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Certain tamers there be of wild beasts, who teach the fiercest creatures, and which terrifie a man when they meet him, to suffer the yoake: and not wanted to have shaken fiercenesse off, do tame them, euer to keep them companie.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887

  • Let us shake off the yoake of a company of whelps that killed so many french and black-coats, and so many of my nation.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • Kanashii ne Anata ni shindemo ayamete hoshiku mo nai onegai Unmei sae nomikomade shizumisouna umi e to Negai yo kaze ni notte yoake no kane wo narase yo Tori no you ni My wishes over their airspace Musuu no nami wo koe Asu en tachimukau anata wo mamoritamae My life I trade in for your pain Arasoi yo tomare!

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Kanashii ne Anata ni shindemo ayamete hoshiku mo nai onegai Unmei sae nomikomade shizumisouna umi e to Negai yo kaze ni notte yoake no kane wo narase yo Tori no you ni My wishes over their airspace Musuu no nami wo koe Asu en tachimukau anata wo mamoritamae My life I trade in for your pain Arasoi yo tomare!

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Kanashii ne Anata ni shindemo ayamete hoshiku mo nai onegai Unmei sae nomikomade shizumisouna umi e to Negai yo kaze ni notte yoake no kane wo narase yo Tori no you ni My wishes over their airspace Musuu no nami wo koe Asu en tachimukau anata wo mamoritamae My life I trade in for your pain Arasoi yo tomare!

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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