As we drew near to the altar we found that in front of it was a sacrificial stone, still darkly stained where blood had flowed upon it; and beneath the stone neck-yoke, still resting there, was a withered remnant of human vertebræ. ❋ Thomas Allibone Janvier (N/A)
It happened that preparations were being made at Rome for a repetition of the [91] great games; the cause of repeating them was this: on the morning of the games, the show not yet being commenced, a master of a family, after flogging his slave loaded with a neck-yoke, had driven him through the middle of the circus; after this the games were commenced, as if that circumstance bore no relation to religion. ❋ Titus Livius (N/A)
He flung the neck-yoke over against the body of the dead horse, and stepped back to free himself from the dangling lines. ❋ Dell H. Munger (N/A)
I pictured to myself the dreadful scene that once had passed, down there below us, where now was only the calm serenity of ancient death: the great crowd collected to witness the sacrifice, and then the sudden coming of the waters -- possibly so quickly that the victim, held down by the neck-yoke upon the sacrificial stone, was drowned ere there was time to slay him. ❋ Thomas Allibone Janvier (N/A)
This done he crept to their heads and slipped the end of the tongue out of the neck-yoke ring. ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)
He had one of his fits of temper in town one day, when he was hitching up to come home, and Leonard Dawson saw him beat one of our horses with the neck-yoke. ❋ Unknown (1922)
We gathered the sap by hand in those days, two pails and a neck-yoke. ❋ Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (1914)
"Do you mean to say you never heard of a neck-yoke?" ❋ Arthur Scott Bailey (1913)
One of the neighbour's boys came over to borrow a neck-yoke. ❋ Unknown (1910)
The steady jog of the horses kept the neck-yoke rattling in the harness with a sound that was almost musical. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)
Sam, by the aid of his voyager's sash, easily carried the supplies and blankets; Dick fastened the two paddles across the thwarts to form a neck-yoke, and swung off with the canoe. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Agias's eye caught a very peculiar bend in the hollow in the neck-yoke. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
Steve was specially pleased, and, drawing a neck-yoke from a barrel standing near, pounded the floor vigorously. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
He has a cutlass once used by an Arab slave trader, and the iron neck-yoke and twenty-pound shackles now worn by slaves while being driven in droves to the coast. ❋ Thomas Lewis (1892)
Rearing and plunging, he tore loose the hook of one of the single-trees, and in a flash stood half free, at right angles now to the vehicle instead of at its front, and struggling to break loose from the neck-yoke. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)
There are several styles, one being the neck-yoke carrier, another the pneumatic canoe-yoke. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)
Steve was specially pleased, and drawing a neck-yoke from a barrel standing near, pounded the floor vigorously. ❋ Various (1888)
In my sugar-making days, the sap was carried to the boiling-place in pails by the aid of a neck-yoke and stored in hogsheads, and boiled or evaporated in immense kettles or caldrons set in huge stone arches; now, the hogshead goes to the trees hauled upon a sled by a team, and the sap is evaporated in broad, shallow, sheet-iron pans, -- a great saving of fuel and of labor. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
