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Word: yawns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Usage:

...know." (This with a deep sigh and smothered yawn.) "You see, I am at home just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIRL GRADUATES. | 12/18/1883 | See Source »

...yawn'd beneath her over-slipping feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

When churchyards yawn, we three will meet again

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RAPE OF THE BELL. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

ONCE upon a midnight dreary, after an evening's grind over Thucydides and English 1, I walked out into the Yard, just at the hour when churchyards yawn, (Query, is it the exceeding sleepiness of the inhabitants that makes churchyards yawn?) to cool my throbbing brain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HALL OF MEMORIES. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

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