Word: yokes
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...while scions of the frivolous French nobility laughed at him. He wrote absurd fiction; he contemplated suicide. "Everything goes awry," said he to his diary. Then a long-smoldering idea flared up in his mind. He would get even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution. One day, he was given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that a cannon ball, if it strikes a man, will kill him."? This theory...
...little kingdom of Sardinia, the Italian states swept aside the Papal authority, threw off the Austrian yoke and laid the foundations of what has become under Mussolini, one of the Great Powers. And in this process of resurrection and reconstruction no man did move than Count Camillo di Gavour...
...father owned his farm of about 250 acres of woodland hills, pasture and meadow lands. He had, I suppose, about 60 or 70 acres of tillable land. He kept, when I was a boy, five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean...
...Bratianos have thus become politically invisible for a time, leaving the present Government irresponsible for their sins: 1) suppression of over 100 revolutionary movements begun by the people of Bessarabia to free themselves from the Rumanian yoke; 2) systematic encouragement of Rumanians who desire to default debts owed to the U.S. and other countries' business concerns; 3) exploitation of the peasant class in the interest of great landholders such as the Bratianos...
...work nine or ten feet long and about three inches wide. A stole supposedly tallies with its alb in design and coloring. The Bishop of London wears his stole between his alb and his tunicle. The spangles across his chest supply the illusion of the cross. It signifies a yoke. In the Eastern Church instead of being a strip, the stole is a square with a hole for the head slit in one corner. It is probably the richest of Eastern vestments and in churches that can afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy...