Quotes: Y

Yë

From his yën ran the water down.

Y-

That no wight mighte it see neither yheere.

Neither to ben yburied nor ybrent.

Yankee

From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all his conduct flows.

The alertness of the Yankee aspect.

Yankee-Doodle

We might have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles.

Yard

If men smote it with a yerde.

The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain Destroyed hath the green in every yerd.

A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks In which she had a cock, hight chanticleer.

yare

The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

Yaw

Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.

Yawl

There howling Scyllas yawling round about.

Yawn

And while above he spends his breath, The yawning audience nod beneath.

't is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn.

One person yawning in company will produce a spontaneous yawn in all present.

Now gape the graves, and trough their yawns let loose Imprisoned spirits.

Ycleped

It is full fair to ben yclept madame.

But come, thou goddess fair and free. In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne.

Those charming little missives ycleped valentines.

Ydrad

Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.

Ye

Ye ben to me right welcome heartily.

But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified.

This would cost you your life in case ye were a man.

Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye.

I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye.

Yea

Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay.

I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

Yead

Years yead away and faces fair deflower.

Year

Of twenty year of age he was, I guess.

Yearly

Yearly will I do this rite.

Yearn

It yearns me not if men my garments wear.

Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep.

Your mother's heart yearns towards you.

Yeast

They melt thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.

Yede

All as he bade fulfilled was indeed This ilke servant anon right out yede.

[He] on foot was forced for to yeed.

Yell

They yelleden as feendes doon in helle.

Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells.

Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled.

Their hideous yells Rend the dark welkin.

Yellow

Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress.

A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.

The line of yellow light dies fast away.

Yellowing

Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given.

Yellowness

I will possess him with yellowness.

Yellows

His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows.

Yelp

I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe.

A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs?

At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.

Yeoman

A yeman hadde he and servants no mo.

Yeomanly

Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly.

Yeomanry

The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion.

Yerk

Their wounded steeds . . . Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters.

They flirt, they yerk, they backward . . . fling.

Yerne

My hands and my tongue go so yerne.

Yester

[An enemy] whom yester sun beheld Mustering her charms.

Yesterday

All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.

We are but of yesterday, and know nothing.

The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs.

Yestreen

Yestreen I did not know How largely I could live.

Yet

This furnishes us with yet one more reason why our savior, lays such a particular stress acts of mercy.

The rapine is made yet blacker by the pretense of piety and justice.

Facts they had heard while they were yet heathens.

Ne never yet no villainy ne said.

Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them.

Yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Yex

He yexeth and he speaketh through the nose.

Yfere

As friends do when they be met yfere.

Yield

To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent.

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.

[He] makes milch kine yield blood.

The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.

Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.

I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.

Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield you for 't.

God yield thee, and God thank ye.

One calmly yields his willing breath.

He saw the fainting Grecians yield.

Will ye relent, And yield to mercy while 't is offered you?

Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields?

Yis

“Yis, sir,” quod he, “yis, host.”

Yode

Quer [whether] they rade [rode] or yode.

Then into Cornhill anon I yode.

Yoke

A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke.

Boweth your neck under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock.

This yoke of marriage from us both remove.

Our country sinks beneath the yoke.

My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them.

Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb.

Then were they yoked with garrisons.

The words and promises that yoke The conqueror are quickly broke.

We 'll yoke together, like a double shadow.

Yokefellow

The two languages [English and French] became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner.

Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex, very often choose one of the most worthless for a companion and yokefellow.

Yon

Read thy lot in yon celestial sign.

Though fast yon shower be fleeting.

But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing.

Yonder

Yonder are two apple women scolding.

Yonder men are too many for an embassage.

Yore

As it hath been of olde times yore.

Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.

Where Abraham fed his flock of yore.

Yote

My fowls, which well enough, I, as before, found feeding at their trough Their yoted wheat.

You

Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed.

Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place.

In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over.

Young

For he so young and tender was of age.

“Whom the gods love, die young,” has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever.

While the fears of the people were young.

Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

[The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young.

Youngling

He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings.

Youngth

Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath.

Younker

That same younker soon was overthrown.

Yourself

Of which right now ye han yourselve heard.

If yourselves are old, make it your cause.

Why should you be so cruel to yourself ?

The religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last.

Youth

Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial.

He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home.

Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly.

Seven youths from Athens yearly sent.

It is fit to read the best authors to youth first.

Youthful

After millions of millions of ages . . . still youthful and flourishing.

Yule

And at each pause they kiss; was never seen such rule In any place but here, at bonfire, or at Yule.

Ywis

“Ywis,” quod he, “it is full dear, I say.”

She answered me, “I-wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato.”

A right good knight, and true of word ywis.

Our ship, I wis, Shall be of another form than this.