He just unyoked the oxen, an 'sat down under a tree, an' died there sitting up. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While some of the men chopped sage-brush and we children carried it to the fires that were kindling, other men unyoked the oxen and let them stampede for water. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There's a great subtext of the heavy hand of government, much of which was unyoked by Reagan and Clinton only to be rekindled under GW Bush and accelerated by Obama. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It must yield a fresh delight once we are unyoked from needing to know what happens next. ❋ Tim Stretton (2008)
HOMER: ‘They unyoked dripping with sweat, when they had had enough of war.’ ❋ Unknown (2007)
The withering leaves no longer quiet, hurried to and fro in search of shelter from its chill pursuit; the labourer unyoked his horses, and with head bent down, trudged briskly home beside them; and from the cottage windows lights began to glance and wink upon the darkening fields. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The other half is whether the weight stays off forever– or comes back the minute the person is unyoked from the rigid controls of the plan. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Why present all those other topics unyoked to religion? ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)
About two miles beyond the northern bank of the pan we unyoked under a fine specimen of the baobab, here called, in the language of Bechuanas, Mowana; it consisted of six branches united into one trunk. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Bushmen, who volunteered to show us a pool; and having unyoked, I walked some miles in search of it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses ❋ Unknown (2004)
When we had first unyoked the horses, I made the man and native boy lay down in the shade, to sleep, whilst I attended to the animals, and kept an eye on the natives. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He plans to play along with the 'unyoked humour' of their 'idleness' for a time in order that he may, at the propitious moment, burst forth in unexpected glory like the sun emerging from behind a dark cloud. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)
For as in the case of a yoke of oxen, if one or other is loosed from the yoke, neither of them can plough alone; so neither can soul or body alone effect anything, if they be unyoked from their communion. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
The youths unyoked the horses and pulled the chariot up through the Eagle Gate, with roseleaves and myrtles falling, and paeans sung. ❋ Renault, Mary (1962)
When we had unyoked and eaten, Dexios went off among the rocks; and presently it seemed to me that he had been rather long gone. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
There our worn and weather-stained troop made its final halt; and the jaded oxen, on whose endurance and patient service so much -- even our lives -- had depended, were unyoked the last time, on ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I will not kill him however angry she be; 'so they unyoked their ploughs and went home. ❋ Cecil Henry Bompas (N/A)
The girls kept at a respectful distance, whilst the men unyoked their horses; but the boys stood near, in the attitude of runners at a tournament, ready to make off the moment the first ominous growl was heard. ❋ P.A. Sheehan (N/A)
