| 单词 | yokel |
| 例句 | I wasn’t even sure what a yokel was, but I tried blending in anyway. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The British soldier was grinning, and Johnny guessed that he had been put up to this game merely to snare ‘the yokels.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When I first arrived in Mqhekezweni I was regarded by some of my peers as a yokel who was hopelessly unequipped to exist in the rarefied atmosphere of the Great Place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Country people we may be, but by golly yokels that you can hoodwink we are jolly well not!'” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z After all, thought Parliament, the Americans were yokels and farmers—not political thinkers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan came up with Relocation Rule Number 14: Blend in with the locals or stick out with the yokels. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z After the performance the walleyed yokels would flock to Brother Mance, and I would fill out applications until my fingers ached. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Spaniards gawped like yokels at the wide streets, ornately carved buildings, and markets bright with goods from hundreds of miles away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were confident that these provincials, these yokels now gaping at their equipment, gauging the manner of fighting men they were, would be so impressed they would never stand up and fight them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With a laugh, one of the men said, “Yup, yokel locals.” Where the Wallowa Mountains Begin 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Some insiders suspect that the humor in , which scored an ecstatic 97% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, might be too hip for the yokels. What If They Gave a New Year's Eve Party and Nobody Came? 2011-12-11T20:41:14Z A Missoula yokel is on hand to puncture that claim as out of touch — a fair gripe, and Martin wants us to know he knows it. The Moral of These Stories? ‘You Are Not as Special as You Think’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z But the film focuses on their local equivalents: the fat guy, the hardened veteran, the country yokel, etc. The Carpetbagger: Fighting on Many Fronts in Foreign-Language Entries 2012-01-04T15:00:57Z Going back centuries in Europe, the designation “Dr.” originally applied only to academics, since medical “doctors” were dimwitted yokels, barbers with saws and axes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Is the ‘Doctor’ in or out? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Cue yokel bullying: they're sneered at in the pub, a dead fox is hung from their porch and a letter containing peeping Tom photos and a bullet drops through the letterbox. Homestead; Highgate Letters; Albert Speer's Walk Around The World; The Carhullan Army 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z Born in Georgia and raised in Virginia, McBride’s take on Southern culture is less the bucktoothed yokel in a burlap sack and more the cross-regionally relatable angry man on a mission. Danny McBride puts the Homer in homeroom: “‘The Odyssey’ finds its way into everything we do” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z They turned out not to be yokels but prosperous and sophisticated, and they were perfectly aware of who he was. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z "Ted Lasso" was introduced as a the story of a out-of-place Kansas yokel in Britain, with Jason Sudeikis playing Ted as the kind of man aware of the assumptions people will make about him. "Ted Lasso" creators Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt want you to know it's OK not to be OK 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Only a poor settler, Wash Jones, is allowed to speak in his natural "yokel voice" and for him Faulkner reserves a special role. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z Initially, the cop-western hybrid seemed to consist of nothing but scenes of Olyphant's Marshal Raylan Givens mocking and then gunning down an entire community of villainous Kentucky yokels while remaining laconic under his big hat. States of bliss 2011-01-29T00:05:00Z Most welcome is that no one in Chester’s Mill, at least no one introduced in Part 1, is the type of stereotypical yokel who often turns up in such stories, including those by Mr. King. Television Review: In ‘Under the Dome’ a Small Town Gets Smaller 2013-06-23T20:59:48Z "The Paperboy" feels more like a hazy slog through the swamp, where gators and goony yokels lie in wait to pounce on their prey. `The Paperboy' delivers gooey, sleazy cheese 2012-10-03T22:40:24Z Television and movies are littered with fish-out-of-water tales about city slickers or country yokels transplanted into an unfamiliar environment. Your move to the big city may be your last 2013-12-27T17:00:00Z For once, it was clear that in the third movement Beethoven meant to show us a rustic knees-up without patronising the yokels. SCO/Ticciati – review 2012-11-14T16:16:58Z In it, Mr. Stanley, as a city slicker lost in the country, questions and gets smart answers from Carter, portraying a wisecracking local yokel: Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The yokels, who are fixing up a decrepit "lake house" weekend getaway, aren't menacing and the actors don't even dive into whatever Ozarks/Bayou/Appalachian accent such characters usually sport. 'Tucker & Dale vs. Evil': Comedy isn't a killer 2011-09-29T20:01:07Z "It happened," announces a title card, "in OLD ENGLAND", an idyllic backwater where chickens pick in the village street and Punch and Judy shows amuse the yokels. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z But, really, is it too much to ask for a supernatural drama that doesn't treat viewers like gurgling yokel dunderskulls? Lightfields: a supernatural chiller that assumes all its viewers are idiots 2013-02-23T11:50:42Z Many of them believe that liberals helped create the problems that rural, white America faces and don’t care what happens to them, instead thinking of them as racist yokels who deserve what they get. Double bubble trouble: John Scalzi on living in two Americas 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Mencken and magazines such as the New Yorker further ridiculed the Midwest as a backward, second-class culture of yokels and rednecks who lacked a dedication to the intellect, let alone sensitivity to the arts. How the Midwest went from the idealized to the derided 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z That is too often American TV’s answer to what white poverty must look like, rife with yokel cliches. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z One bit on David Cross and Bob Odenkirk’s 1990s sketch program, “Mr. Show,” featured a yokel who, after the siege in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, declared his house a sovereign nation. Review: ‘Hits,’ a Comedy, Lampoons Internet Fame 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He’s a cautionary tale of what happens to average yokels who fool themselves into thinking they’re ready to take up residence among the sharks. Watch "Succession" to understand why media companies reward the worst people 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z This film is no different, except its yokels are classy. The Book of Eli: bad news Bible 2010-06-02T14:27:00Z I start a film just after we finish this tour where I play a small-town sheriff, a yokel. A Conversation With: John Malkovich: John Malkovich on Casanova and Other Roles 2013-05-27T21:18:58Z And the yokels behind him are no help, either: one of them has a grain of sand stuck in his eye. Three Kings at 20: the war movie where anything was possible 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Unlike earlier Liverpool entertainers, who seemed to either Londonise themselves or specialise in being Scouser yokels, the Beatles have come up with a different and heavily northern flavoured sound of their own. The Beatles: a trigger for a musical revolution 2012-10-04T09:56:03Z Franz, a twenty-something rural yokel goes to work at his uncle’s Berlin department store and is pulled into an affair by his lubricious aunt. Nabokov and the Movies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Tom and Huck are now young adult yokels with the imaginations of 19th-century country boys. Review: ‘Band of Robbers’ Riffs on Mark Twain Characters in Today’s Missouri 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s still early enough in the competition that we don’t know anything about this Whitman’s Sampler of chuckleheads, yokels and gel-bots, except for the fact that they have all made some questionable life choices. The Bachelorette Watch: The Muppets Make A Move on Emily 2012-05-22T12:00:59Z One man waiting to get his hair cut at a barber pointed disapprovingly to a tabloid headline Wednesday referring to residents as "local yokels." Chelsea warning: NY town abuzz pre-Clinton wedding 2010-07-28T18:39:00Z The other was Big Bird, who was performed in a full body costume and who, Spinney said, he was originally asked to play as “a funny, dumb country yokel.” Original Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z He beats on his big tin drum and tootles his pipes and works the yokels, squeezing them for cash. “Citizen Punch” 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Thanks to Canada’s parliamentary style of government, these local yokels determine who the prime minister is based on a majority of that party’s members elected. John Oliver to Canada: Arrest me. “Canada is America’s next-door neighbor. Stephen Harper is her dickhead boyfriend” 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Forced to share office space in a taxidermy shop, Josh discovers just about every yokel cliche there is — some of it funny, some of it not even worth mentioning. Review | NBC’s ‘Trial & Error’ works with what little is left of the mockumentary genre 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z A quick okie-doke’ll make some Dakota yokel Think that I think that he’s “the one.” Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Menken’s characterization of Dayton, Ohio’s religious populace as “yokels,” “morons,” or “hillbillies.” Religion’s media persecution complex 2013-04-23T22:01:00Z Senate run the following year, Springer referenced a quote by then National Review commentator Jonah Goldberg, who warned of new people brought to the polls by Springer, including “slack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs and whatnots.” Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z And yet, this media myth persists that it's all just an act to win over the "base" of uneducated yokels. Ron DeSantis' Disney obsession: Why he can't let it go 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z They find it hard to fathom why anyone would want to live in a place that films, TV shows and other media have taught them is a cesspool populated only by slack-jawed yokels. Perspective | Climate change makes Appalachian life even harder. So why do we stay? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The only yokels in the hearing room were on the dais. Opinion | Republicans promised ‘no circus’ at Jackson’s hearing. Then the clown car rolled in. 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Insults use mostly antiquated terms: “ding dong,” “oh, banana oil,” “dumb yokels,” “loser,” “punk.” What to watch with your kids: ‘Butter,’ Cyrano’ and more 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Social media takes are a little more blunt, about how dumb yokels in red areas are stupidly falling for vaccine misinformation while the big brains of blue America believe in science. Insurrection by other means: Republicans are ready to die of COVID to spite Biden, Democrats 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z These issues, like the state of democracy and white supremacy, are real issues, not "distractions," even if the GOP strategy in pushing their agenda is to act like a bunch of yokels. Democrats can win the culture wars — but they have to take on the fight early and often 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Voters saw themselves scolded as "a bunch of yokels addicted to opioids and Mountain Dew, and they don't like that portrayal" said Michael Berheide, a political scientist at Berea College, Kentucky. To Trump voters, chaos in Afghanistan 'another betrayal' by Biden 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Frank Filiberto, who was on the Town Commission at the time, recalled feeling as if the developers regarded him and the other officials as “local yokels.” ‘They Were Bullies’: Inside the Turbulent Origins of the Collapsed Florida Condo 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The average person looks at these photos of badly dressed people acting like animals and thinks "what a bunch of yokels," not "what a carefully orchestrated political campaign created by professional propagandists." Don't be fooled by parents' "critical race theory" tantrums — they're a part of the GOP's strategy 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Henson, who died in 1990, originally conceived Big Bird as a “funny, dumb country yokel,” Mr. Spinney said, recalling that he persuaded the show’s makers to recast the character as a curious 6-year-old. Caroll Spinney, puppeteer who gave life to Big Bird of ‘Sesame Street,’ dies at 85 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Finally, we are not talking about inexperienced yokels. Opinion | Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide is unfathomable 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z And Republican reactions strongly suggest their misogyny is more than an act put on to bamboozle the yokels. So it’s true: Republicans really do hate women 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z When people hear “Appalachia,” stereotypes and even slurs often immediately jump to mind, words like “backwards,” “ignorant,” “hillbilly” or “yokel.” Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Just like Donald Trump winding up the Capitol insurrectionists, most of the puppeteers here work by getting people wound up and then stepping back to let the yokels get arrested or otherwise embarrass themselves. Don't be fooled by parents' "critical race theory" tantrums — they're a part of the GOP's strategy 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Most of the Taliban fighters were ornery yokels, with only the vaguest understanding of what America was. Review | America’s slow-motion military and policy disaster in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z You have a powerful illegal foreign force operating within our federal government to pervert the will of the people and the swamp yokels around here hardly bat an eye. Chuck Schumer and Democrats loyal to illegals at expense of Americans 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z It was village and farm, the hick with the spitball, the yokel with the level swing. Analysis | Baseball didn’t always love home runs. Here’s how they took over the game. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z “It’s just easy to brand these people as a bunch of Islamophobic, racist yokels,” he told me, with a hint of disgust in his voice. How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Sure, there were a few yokels burning jerseys, but it was nowhere near the level of city-wide and media-wide opprobrium that hit LeBron like a tidal wave when he left Cleveland. Kevin Durant is the Luckiest Sports Human of the Week - Golf Digest 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z "She was a bully who treated me like some country yokel from Yorkshire. I couldn't abide her then, so I won't pretend I am looking forward to rubbing shoulders with her now." John Noakes: The action man of Blue Peter - BBC News 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z One teacher, from Bristol, told researchers he did not want to be seen as "a village idiot" or "a thick yokel who lives on a farm". Teacher changes accent to avoid 'village idiot' tag - BBC News 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “People made fun of me. They said my music was for farmers or for maids or taxi drivers—yokels,” recalled Mr. Kammao, now 48 years old. Bangkok Band Jams Old Music Into New Groove 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s why Republicans relish any chance to paint Obama as a pretentious communist from Kenya, and why Democrats never tire of portraying George W Bush as a yokel. The joke isn't on Ronald Reagan's illness, but on America for elevating him 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The crowds in Malaybalay town that day were not bemused yokels, politely clapping the least worst choice on the ballot paper. How Rodrigo Duterte Got to the Brink of Philippines Presidency 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Or, to put it more bluntly: put the phone down, enjoy breathing in the rarefied air, and stop looking like a yokel. New rule for those ‘excruciating’ selfie takers at this year’s correspondents’ dinner: Don’t 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Any move, urged on by the RNC, to constrain the size of the field is perceived by Real Conservatives as the “establishment” trying to prevent the yokels from embarrassing the party brand. How do you solve a problem like Donald Trump?: Navigating the GOP’s 2016 clown show 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The aim of such local ordinances was to assure justice for all, but why trust local yokels to handle that kind of responsibility? Roundup of Arkansas editorials 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But in the upcoming midterm elections, voters have decided to hate the local yokels, too. Deeply unloved and highly electable: US politicians annoy and conquer 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The district attorney’s office reflects an attitude, that deep-blue Austin is better than bright-red Texas, and the rubes and yokels must be brought to heel. PRUDEN: Brutal politics in a not-so-gay place 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z “We’re not sitting around like a bunch of yokels thinking slavery was a good thing,” Cash, speaking in his first news media interview, said. Confederate battle flag, like Nazi swastika, is offensive emblem of hateful cause The song’s condescension towards yokels is reminiscent of professional investors’ disdain for their retail counterparts. The wisdom of the laity 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Otherwise they would have to raise local taxes and reveal to the yokels that they weren't getting something for nothing after all. kathy Haven't seen many giddy liberals. Can Obama Follow Through on His Bold Inaugural Speech? 2013-01-22T20:05:25Z Great chimneys sprouted from the stadium floor and the once carefree yokels were transformed into drudges. The 2012 Olympic Games Open with Lots of Bangs--and a Whimper 2012-07-28T05:05:33Z This is a bit of a "yokel" problem, as in the rustic who when asked for directions, replies "I wouldn't start from here". Global financial markets and the economy: Five years on 2012-06-25T13:03:02Z If it is pre-industrial revolution, will we be enthralled by be-smocked, forelock-tugging yokels, shire horses and the squire and his lady, completed by a facsimile of a thatched hovel and appropriate agricultural odours and noises? Letters: Sheep, chickens and the Tor - but where are The Wurzels? 2012-06-13T20:00:01Z When it was over, the congregation dispersed into the churchyard, where the yokels hung about waiting for the vicar to come out. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z After lunch, I visit an inn and throw dice with the yokels, to taste my malign destiny in their brutish company. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z I remember one day asking a village yokel how far off the next village was, and he surprised me by answering, “Three cups of tea.” Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z They were both very kind to Osmond, but that was their humanity, you know—they would have done the same for any village yokel. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Has he not been made notorious as “Sergeant Kite,” the unscrupulous ruffian who inveigled the country yokel into drink and the acceptance of the King’s shilling at the roadside inn? The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z The yokels, who mistook generosity for weakness, began to throw stones at the vicar, one of which cut his face. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Petrovic, who has turned the heads of men in half the capitals of Europe, and who has never failed to make them her slaves, fail to captivate this yokel! The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z For an hour, writhing under the reflection that even the yokels about him were aware of his discomfiture, he was cast down to the very ground. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z It enables me to lead two lives; I am on week days urban, sophisticated, a man of commerce; at night and on Sundays I am a smocked yokel, innocent among my innocent vegetables. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Shop-keepers ran to their doors, the crowd closed up about it, the yokels gaped--for who in those days felt no interest in its advent! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z "Do you not know what is due to quality?" said I, sternly, to the gillie—a raw yokel scented with whiffs of the stables. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Mere yokels were presuming to chatter in village market-places, to discuss matters which concerned their betters, to express opinions of their own which were sadly lacking in respect; and somehow they escaped the lash. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z A sutler or two passed presently below him, some straggling horsemen, a few knots of yokels bent on satisfying their curiosity. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z But here were yokels from Calne and Bowood, who knew not Sir Robert; with Bristol lambs and men as dangerous, and not a few Radicals from a distance, rabid with zeal and overflowing with promises. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z "I'm disappointed; because I hoped you were less bone-brained and more patriotic than these yokels round here." Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z They appeared to be a respectable company, mostly honest yokels from the village, clad in plain homespun. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z There are no full-blooded Sergeant Kites and gaping yokels nowadays. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The language has no right to exist save as a patois for rustic yokels. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z Even the yokel in England talks of "them foreigners." The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z A yokel in a hurry is always amusing. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z I blurted out, like a country yokel at a quilting. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The tango and the turkey-trot had spread overseas, and royalties trod on Persis' toes as they bungled the steps like yokels. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z It was a poor place I saw at a glance, and as we pulled up, a crowd of yokels in holiday attire gathered around us. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z But if we do that, what is to become of the yokels that are on board? The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z The ousted yokels held each a soil-stained hand for their genteel rivals to mount from. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Of course, that poor chap coming to grief here so mysteriously, might give rise to all sorts of yarns among the yokels. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z It was perfectly sincere, yet it sounded like the bumptious praise of a yokel. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z For the most part they were talking together at the top of their voices, as yokels on such occasions have a trick of doing. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z There are some people who find Jim an unresponsive and suspicious yokel. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z A manumitted slave, a cumbrous yokel of an Essene, hath given thee troublous nights, because the lady's eyes soften in his presence! Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z But he certainly did not care to talk over such momentous questions at a country fair, with the eyes and mouths of hundreds of yokels gaping astonishment at him. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Copeland realized that what he had just heard could be a line of malarky meant to kid a yokel, or a bid to get him involved in something. Comet's Burial 2011-09-19T02:00:15.417Z And after all, this yokel and his queer story were no more bizarre than was many a spy trick played by Germany upon her foes. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z Then slowly into view crept one of those anachronisms of the metropolis—a huge, shaggy horse slowly stalking northward, dragging a rickety express wagon whereon reposed a semisomnolent yokel. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Two of the constables moved towards me, while the rest of the yokels stared at me openmouthed. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z For example, like the unschooled yokel they will sometimes make the word "learn" do duty for "teach" also. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z An ungainly yokel stepped on the feet of the Mansion girls, and some bold gentlemen, who had spent a goodly portion of their natural lives in Bridewell, swore at them. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z Wasn't in the top 20 but burned up the pre-draft circuit, convinced his hometown team he isn't just a local yokel. NBA mock draft: Who goes No. 1? 2011-06-22T23:09:00Z "It may be saved by the gentlemen, by God! sir, but not by our yokels." The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Her thoughts went back to that first day of their meeting, when she mistook him for a country yokel. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Eight or ten yokels and some farmer folks joined the gaping crowd. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z "I won't have you rate Musk among the yokels," said Sir Wilton afterwards. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z "Do they take us for a crowd of yokels at a country fair?" asked one archer of his fellow. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z To think that you—you, Emilie, who have never for a single day been absent from my thoughts, should be wasting away your life among the yokels of an insignificant seaport town. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z She had been so used to command and to prompt obedience that this insubordination on the part of a country yokel seemed nothing less than an insult. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z They are written in a lively fashion, and are often naively humorous, the most sacred Bible characters being introduced along with English yokels and crudely comic persons. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z In the bar overnight he heard yokels talking of the need of money at the big house, how Van Hupfeldt’s wealth would make the flowers grow again in Rigsworth. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping yokel. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z He's always been a country yokel," the old man teased, "and has never known what's good. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z And while I was meeting with these misfortunes, the bystanding yokels, whose sympathies were all on one side and that not mine, as you may suppose, were dancing with delight, and shrieking their hoarse encouragement. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Only a few decades ago, Romansh was looked upon as the patois of the poor country yokel; today it is experiencing a tenuous rebirth thanks to grass-roots revival programs and government support. Chur Journal: In Multilingual Switzerland, One Tongue Struggles to Survive 2010-09-29T00:10:00Z Indeed, voters took out their anger at the polls, electing virtually any yokel who promised change or who railed at the Washington establishment, and sending home four congressional incumbents. Candidates Stand Their Ground on Super Tuesday 2010-06-09T08:00:00Z In 2007, he wasn't considered good enough for South Africa's Twenty20 side, and down the years he's often been characterised as some sort of yokel. Jacques Kallis the unlikely star as IPL gets off to thrilling start | Dileep Premachandran 2010-03-17T13:54:00Z "Country yokel," she laughed, thrusting out her tongue at him. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z I imitated the farmer's excellent example, divested myself of coat, waistcoat and shirt, and bound up my breeches with a leathern belt I was able to borrow from a flattered and delighted yokel. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Bets were staked, dice were rattled, and yokels learned to place the dues of the harvest-field upon the fortunes of the winning or losing colour. A Cursory History of Swearing It was market day; the noise and the bustle worried him, and in his weak state the jostling of the yokels was more than he could stand. A Poached Peerage If you are talking of the great Calavera," he said, "she will be far too wonderful a lady to take any notice of a yokel like myself. The Hillman Why shouldn’t I finish as well as the dairy-fed daughter of a Devonshire yokel? The Cabinet Minister A farce in four acts Seeing him to be somewhat the worse, his yokels ran to him, whilst I went too, and rendered him all the assistance that lay in my power. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z One of the yokels gave a sarcastic cough, and was immediately covered with confusion at the Angel's enquiring gaze, nudging his companion with his elbow to cover his disorder. The Wonderful Visit Even the tap-room yokels have not produced a stimulating curiosity, and higher society is lacking in the village. The Gay Adventure A Romance Ah! you are yokels; but comrade Rodolph is an out-and-out pal, he is. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 There was no conceivable reason for his looking like a gaunt ascetic, who would surprise nobody if he borrowed a sixpence from the first yokel he met in the lanes. Last Words His parasite the beadle went with him, but a considerable number of the yokels stayed to keep us company. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z He has been buttonholing every yokel he came across, and asking them why they had to work, while we—I and you, you know—did nothing. The Wonderful Visit The impenetrability of these yokels is not exhilarating. The Gay Adventure A Romance The yokels are so taken up with staring at your last new tie, or your immaculate collar, that you don't get a word out of them. The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story I never saw a healthy yokel or robust Lama performing this rite. The Unveiling of Lhasa On stepping out of the hovel into the yard I found my antagonist was surrounded by three or four of the farm yokels, and moreover was stripped to the waist. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z "You frowsty old yokel!" his friend exclaimed, laughing. Plashers Mead A Novel For some of us this philosophy may mean simple acquiescence; for others an attitude of pleased contemplation, like a yokel smoking his pipe, leaning on the gate of a summer evening. The Gay Adventure A Romance It was absolutely terra incognita to Armitage, and he gazed open-eyed around him like any country yokel seeing the sights of the city for the first time. By Right of Conquest A Novel Tristrem looked at him much as a yokel at a fair might look at a wizard. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel "Now then, you come along of me," commanded the yokel as a blush ebbed and flowed upon his cheeks glistening with down and perspiration. Carnival Yes, you said that before—for the amusement of a mob of grunting yokels, and an odd social equal or two. In the Whirl of the Rising I give you my word I know not which is best; and if he will choose a second from his friends over there"—another bow to our drunken yokels at the gate—"we will commence.” Rewards and Fairies Me, an actor, behaving like a frightened yokel! The Old Die Rich Finally MacHugh drew a pencil sketch of Marietta followed by a long train of admiring yokels, her eyes turned up in a very shy, deceptive manner. The "Genius" His great agility gave him an advantage over the comparative clumsiness of the four yokels who pressed him, but he was well aware that an unguarded blow might lay him at their mercy. A Prince of Good Fellows See here," he said, imperiously, "I don't give a —— what these yokels think of me. A Canadian Bankclerk Any yokel can dig a hole in the ground and plant the seed and in due time gather the ripened tubers. The Blue Goose Poor dear Mr. Clinton is a yokel, for all his ancestry. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons The city-bred, even if fewer in number, immediately established an ascendancy over the country yokels. Jena or Sedan? Always too like some open-mouthed yokel at a fair who knows nothing of the insult chalked upon his back, he disregarded how he himself coveted and desired and would if he could have gripped. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman “Ah that a’ be!” came in chorus from the yokels. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The engineer who drives his engine at sixty miles an hour, flashing by warning semaphores, rolling among coloured lights, clattering over frogs and switches, is no yokel. The Blue Goose They even tried the plow, but they followed it too literally, and the scallopy furrows they drew across the fields made the yokels laugh or grieve, according to their natures. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Regarding these village yokels with some curiosity, the soldier saw in them a possible type of the audiences to which the strollers must appeal for favor. The Strollers It was into this cage that the body of Mr. Winterberry was to be put to make a public holiday for yokels! Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective But, on the other hand, we are driving this mob of cultured yokels into the towns to crowd out local labour, to starve, and to fill the gaols and workhouses. The Curse of Education Therefore, because of this fact, with the compensation of one day he can, if he so elects, buy many potatoes, or employ many yokels. The Blue Goose I hastened forward, thinking to find some yokels. The O'Ruddy A Romance Hesitatingly, and like a clumsy yokel, I blurted: “I have been wondering whether you cared for the performance I gave?” The Fifth String None of these things would let such an one as he was rest content to apprehend them as a yokel. Holbein What would an English yokel, meandering along at the tail of his two slow horses, say to that? Round the Wonderful World Had Sir Isaac Newton devoted to the raising of potatoes the energy which he gave to astronomy, he might have raised larger potatoes and more to the hill than his yokel neighbour. The Blue Goose He gave over his sulks directly, and I made him buy another pint each for the yokels. The O'Ruddy A Romance "To be sure you will—so now, Nancy, teach old Rob how the yokels dance, and we'll be off." Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Not without an effort, however: since it was difficult to resist laughing at the grotesque exclamations and speeches, which our appearance and movements elicited from these wondering yokels. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Monsignor took possession of Horace, also of the affections of the tavern-keeper, and of the best things which belonged to that yokel and his hostelry. The Art of Disappearing “Remember, we don’t know for certain that there was a lover in the case, and we should surely accept the rumours of country yokels with considerable hesitation.” The Seven Secrets I peered through the window, but at first I saw only a collection of gaping yokels, poor bent men with faces framed in straggly whiskers. The O'Ruddy A Romance With old ladies he was bland; with sportsmen slangy; with yokels he was broadly humorous; and with young people aggressively juvenile. The Hero There were present some half dozen yokels, the vicar’s curate, a country blood or two, and a little withered runt of a man in fustian with a weazened face like a wrinkled pippin. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Only one yokel expressed disbelief in my identity. The Motor Pirate We found the "Green Man" readily enough, with a country yokel to point the way, for which he expected the price of a beer. The Automobilist Abroad The yokels had now recovered some of their senses, and they greeted my plan with hoarse mutterings of hasty and submissive assent. The O'Ruddy A Romance With a shilling in his pocket to get his dinner, the young yokel set off on his journey, and we strolled away. A Queen's Error Before we got back to the inn one of those cursed placards offering a reward for my arrest adorned the wall, and in front of it a dozen open-mouthed yokels were spelling out its purport. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 At first we saw men at work in the fields, not many, but every now and again some slow Dutch yokel, with his sunburned face turned from his labor to watch us pass. The Reckoning "I don't see how Merry keeps his patience and temper in dealing with these hide-bound yokels," muttered Bart. Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block For among the mud-larks he recognises one who, early in the day, offered insult to himself, calling him a “country yokel.” The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure The burglar's dog is a thief; the country yokel has a stupid, unintelligent dog. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille Then, with ‘A sarvant, sir,’ to me, he took himself into the kitchen, followed by the rest of the sporting yokels. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Country-folk, yokels, farmers, had gathered from all directions; invalids from the camp hospitals were there, too, faces clay-color, heads and limbs heavily bandaged. The Reckoning A gaping crowd of yokels stood around, while the old woman faithfully kneaded the abdomen. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia On these they are about to act, one crying out, “Let’s pitch into the yokel and gie him a good trouncin’!” a second adding, “Hang his imperence!” while a third counsels teaching him “Portsmouth manners.” The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure On a smooth patch of turf behind the blacksmith shop three yokels were languidly pitching horseshoes—“quaits” they called them—at a stake driven in the earth. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights Was it a village public-house, full of hearty English yokels, drinking their evening tankards of beer? There was a King in Egypt Why, she has been the life of the town, sir; she has waked us and set us all a-dancing like yokels at a May-pole or a ring-around-a-rosy! The Reckoning For even now Perhaps, before some yokel's eyes The purpling creature dashes by, Bending its noble, hornèd brow. The Book of Humorous Verse One is already furious—a big hulking fellow, their leader and instigator, and the same who had cried, “country yokel.” The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure That milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent that is possessed only by yokels, and that a person born in a large city can never hope to acquire it. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind The jury was composed of twelve yokels, eleven of them had never heard of the book, the twelfth said he had read it about twenty years earlier. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing For it seemed to me too good to waste, and would certainly be of more use to me than to the first yokel who should pass that way. The Dew of Their Youth Now he was acting the mountebank, to the huge amusement of a lot of yokels. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer His favorite victim is some half-witted fellow—tho’ a customer who is partly deaf may do and he is always ready for a yokel or a foreigner. Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks The carter, Giles Crake, who had found the body, was a stupid yokel whose knowledge was entirely limited to his immediate surroundings. The Bishop's Secret You will remember this kind of rig-out, only with hook of moderate size, as often used by Midland yokels in bream fishing. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler She stared at Ruth, Helen and Jennie with all the amazement of the usual yokel. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point If you say you are selling goods under cost, it’s very likely some yokel will cry out, ‘Stolen, hey?’ The Gypsies And he's got all Oredan in his pocket—all but one family and a few odd yokels he doesn't even worry about. The Best Made Plans I finally caught her alone while she was waiting for some yokel to get her a glass of punch. 32 Caliber For instance, there is admirable satire in the idea of Touchstone teaching worldly wisdom and worldly honour to the woodland yokels. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Paul knew the speech of the local gentry, he knew his father's Ayrshire accent, and his own yokel drawl; but this new cousin spoke an English altogether strange to his ears, and it sounded fairylike. Despair's Last Journey One, more serviceable than the rest, called from the window to a gaping yokel below in the yard, and bade him ride for help. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray Clipped the stupid yokel so hard he didn't make a sound when he went down. The Best Made Plans I had half-cleared the arms-room, but there were weapons enough left, and they stared at them like yokels in a booth. The Frozen Pirate This man was a yokel of no interest to us, apart from this one episode in his career. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) In the dim local yokel mind Paul was a failure, and he knew it. Despair's Last Journey It is not a pretty thing to be the only decently bred and sober man amongst a howling crowd of yokel drunkards, whose every phrase is built on a foundation of hitherto unconceived obscenities. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Her catkins were stripped from her, worn for a few hours in yokels’ hats, and flung aside. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead-footed yokel. Planet of the Damned "I thought it was your motor-cycle I found by the roadside, with a lanky yokel mounting guard over it; and he said something about an accident——" "Nothing very serious." Afterwards Galoot A rube A yokel—a heavy country fellow. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn The baroness was tickled by the perplexed look on the yokel's face and began to shake with laughter as she sat in her armchair. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories For the sake of the fit of romance that I felt for his father, I took some kind notice of this yokel afloat. Rattlin the Reefer Strange to say, such was his denseness, that even then, the yokel could not see the point of the joke and the steward had to order him away. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy At the roadside, beggar, scholar, yokel, knight, and noble jostled in a motley throng. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess If concord sweet shall lend us helping hand I fear me much this yokel must go hence For he doth gag us with his silly tongue! 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts I caught some hard eyes from the local yokels but eventually I discovered that my luck was with me. Highways in Hiding She had called and been unable to rouse him, while he lay there like a yokel and dreamed of her! The Seventh Noon You can throw 'em all into one of two groups: yokels and shilabers. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story Except a few yokels trudging to their work, and now and then a blithe milkmaid calling to her cows, I met no one. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess The circus concert adopted the "Gift Show" scheme, and when a circus side-show, or concert, adopts an innovation of this character, it is safe to wager that the yokel will "get his" good and plenty. Watch Yourself Go By Here was reward enough for all the jolting, the flogging of horses, and the pain of yokels pressed unwillingly into pushing the coach with their shoulders through miry places. Simon Dale In fact, he played the organ in such a masterly way that he had no competitor, save a phenomenal yokel by the name of Johann Sebastian Bach. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians "Are you going to spend your life out here in the sticks, with cattle, horses, and a few yokels that you have to ride miles and miles, before you see two of 'em together?" David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story At the next table, a squad of yokels just in from the oberland, in their short jackets and their hobnailed boots. Europe After 8:15 A dice box on top of the glass-covered case was the means by which the yokels were assured they could extract the jewelry, bank notes, etc. Watch Yourself Go By I can see adoring yokels pulling their forelocks to him! Jane Journeys On “Tom has sold us,” p. 120said they, “sold us to the yokels; who would have thought it?” Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest Whilst this was going on we stood, moody and dejected, surrounded by a group of yokels, the keeper of the auberge fussing near us. Orrain A Romance Two or three times the yokel he questioned didn't know; twice, however, he did get a definite assurance that Graves was ahead of him. Facing the German foe, by Colonel James Fiske But even the basest of the yokels and groundlings could not make merry over the cozening of so noble a gentleman! The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee They are as unpardonable as the yokel rhetoric of our British friends. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View There remains, then, the only true utility of a zoo: it is a childish and pointless show for the unintelligent, in brief, for children, nursemaids, visiting yokels and the generality of the defective. Damn! A Book of Calumny There was truth in her words, for as she rode out of the trees one of the yokels fled at once, but the other, seeing it was a woman, held his ground. Orrain A Romance After this Gordon decided that the natural simplicity of the yokel was proof against anything he might have to say. The Loom of Youth Four groups of characters attract attention in turn; the young noblemen and Margaret, the three kings and the Spanish princess, the country yokels and squires, and the magicians. The Growth of English Drama "It's the faker with the four-carat diamond pin which is doing his creditors, Mawruss, but the yokel with the soup on his coat pays a hundred cents on the dollar every time." Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter While G.K. was making his confession to Father O'Connor, Frances and Father Rice went out of the chapel and sat on the yokels' bench in the bar of the inn. Gilbert Keith Chesterton And, bidding Pierrebon give the yokel a coin, we pressed forwards. Orrain A Romance And he went out, thinking how like a bewildered yokel the mayor seemed in the face of his daughter's graceful greeting, and imagining with relish his further discomfiture. The Mayor of Warwick Look here, you something-or-other yokels," he called out, "if this is one of your village jokes, I promise you shall smart for it. News from the Duchy Those two yokels both had big families and they didn't do such a big business either. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter You never met a Jewish clod or yokel. Gilbert Keith Chesterton A vision of our hero, glorious in his uniform, was in itself sufficient to ensnare the senses of any country yokel. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 In the yard he found the yokel trying in vain to induce Banjo to enter a door that was too small for him. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs And these were but country yokels armed with farming tools. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Now if I am right and we take the fiddle back, then we are acting like a couple of cheap yokels, ain't it? Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter There was a lad called Barnes, a steerage passenger of about my own age, a raw, red-headed Northumbrian yokel, going out as a recruit to one of the West Indian regiments. Romance He squared himself, planting his feet apart, and, thrusting his hands deep in his coat pockets, faced the discomfited yokel. David Harum A Story of American Life The woman called to a yokel to come and take the horses. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs How to change such an order to reverse it in effect, I knew no more than a yokel; but here again my ancient ally showed himself a man of parts. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady I told him that perhaps I would when I had seen as much of men and things as he had; but now I looked about me with the mind and the eye of a yokel. The Soldier of the Valley Or, if military: A yokel watching a cavalry regiment in Autumn Manoeuvres over a bridge. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books I'd kept a civil tongue ever since debarking the train, treating adult and kid with equal respect, but I was getting sick of being treated like a yokel. A Place so Foreign A facetious individual who was taking a long walk in the country came upon a yokel sitting on a stile. Amusements in Mathematics I like to think that, however Europeans may have laughed and wondered at the yokel out of place, for the sycophant denying his compatriots was reserved the bitterest of their contempt. Fifth Avenue It would be acting like the fabled yokel who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Jockeys, squaws, yokels, etc., all appeared mysteriously from nothing. Fanny Goes to War His eyes flashed fire upon the yokels skurrying before him, a vitriolic stream of abuse scorched their faces as he bore them down. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India I must rouse this chuckle-headed yokel and get him to help me.' Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment The yokel himself, however,—and particularly herself,—seems determined to deny all poetic and picturesque relations, by clothing himself—and herself—in coarse, shop-made rubbish, in battered, démodé town-hats and flounced gowns from Petticoat Lane. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 By taking her he would be making just a yokel of himself.... Joanna Godden In another corner some rude gipsy juggling was to be seen, at which the rustic yokels gazed with wondering eyes. The Secret Chamber at Chad You go and herd with knaves and yokels, do you? and bring shame upon me, and set the countryside a-chattering of Richard Burke and his idle young oaf of a brother! In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Every yokel in the country had heard rumours of these ladies, but Mr. Mount gave those at Camylott village details which were often true and always picturesque. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Look at us—bringing up the rear of a gibbering mob of yokels! The Miracle Man My schoolmates had met me on the streets in company with these wild-looking yokels, sometimes taking them to their waggons when they were too drunk to pilot themselves effectively. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Oh, he was an innocent—a blind baby—the joke and laughing-stock of the country around, with yokels grinning at him and pale-faced devils laughing aloud. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Curses on my hit in "'Way Down East" That handcuffs me forever to yokels, And me a better character actor than Corse Payton! The Broadway Anthology The yokels who went out to the French wars innocent boys returned confirmed rogues. Recent Developments in European Thought There labourers shouted, women screamed, Up flew the felt-hats all; And every yokel yelled, "Well done!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 "The yokels," and Darrie's nostrils flared, her blue blood showing, "to dare even think of such an action, against their betters!" Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative If he could only once make this yokel speak her name, he'd know . . . all he wanted to know. The Brimming Cup The yokel was a year or two older, was taller, and stones heavier. Acton's Feud A Public School Story What the yokels would call her "small basket fortune" had served a purpose handsomely, and there was an end of it. The Devil's Garden Arthur was impressed because, though she reported these rumours with mock scepticism as the stories of ignorant yokels and old women, the innkeeper had evidently a terrified belief in their truth. The Magician The Arab yokel coming to Bagdad is fearful of losing his identity, and ties a pumpkin to his leg before going to sleep. More English Fairy Tales His movements do not go unnoted like a yokel's. Helmet of Navarre He strode in between the two, and pushed the yokel among his friends, whilst he dragged Bourne a little apart. Acton's Feud A Public School Story In another minute the yokels were leading the way through a plantation, along which ran a little stream. With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne And she tearfully begged the yokel who was rowing her to replace the fish in its native element. The Common Law The yokel awaking is perplexed like the pantheist. More English Fairy Tales We gaped at Lucas like yokels at a conjurer. Helmet of Navarre The yokel came on in all the pride of his beefy strength, for ha knew that he was going to finish the "swell" this round. Acton's Feud A Public School Story No matter how ragged you are, if you can screw a pane in your eye you can awe the yokel or the tradesman. Shandygaff Yet neither was he a hero to himself nor to the Buckinghamshire farmers and yokels who depended on him. Marcella Even on a country road I would walk miles out of my way to avoid meeting the ordinary yokel. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Great excitement ensued among the perspiring laborers of the road and the dumb-struck yokels of the district. Across China on Foot About a week after the holidays Acton had been skating on the Marsh, and as he was returning he came across Jack Bourne engaged in a desperate fight with a young yokel. Acton's Feud A Public School Story The last statement may only be applicable to the country editions, by which the yokels are deceived. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" "Some of these country yokels must represent us," he observed. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work Over these I rejoiced like a yokel with a pocketful of butterscotch and peanuts. The Art of the Moving Picture As I approached the big street, throngs of blue-cottoned yokels, quite out of hand, created a nerve-racking uproar, as they thriftily drove their bargains. Across China on Foot The yokel thinks only of his dinner and his snooze under the hedge, but the man of education rejoices in every new production of the human brain. The "Goldfish" And Chayne laughed aloud derisively, as though he were some yokel practising a joke. Running Water It did not occur to them that the yokel who stood warming himself by the stove might be the man they were after. Hero Tales of the Far North Many of the pictures of Charles Ray make the hero quite a bronze-looking sculpturesque person, despite his yokel raiment. The Art of the Moving Picture But why should I have felt depressed because of failures in the eyes of these silly yokels? The Night Horseman The room into which the yokel ushered me appeared to be a library, low of ceiling, misty with sour pipe smoke, which curled and floated level, wavering as the door closed behind me. The Maid-At-Arms Two sturdy yokels now dug a tunnel through a mound beside an oak tree; the tunnel was just high enough to let a man creep through it on all fours. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul In the distance was heard the lusty song of the blowsy yokels, as they clumsily carted homeward the day's gathering. Mistress Penwick The sharp word of command; the quick swing to the proper position; the snappy step; everything that we knew more than a lot of yokels might be expected to know, we got from Buck Gowdy. Vandemark's Folly But since that gruesome murder on the beach forty-eight hours ago and more, both the quality and the yokels preferred to venture abroad in company. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk It is not for me to blame him in his wrath, when, beside himself with righteous fury, he gave the bellowing yokels their heads and swept on with them to destruction. The Maid-At-Arms I once saved a yokel in like manner. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy Before his eyes, and amidst the grins of a score of gaping yokels, Thomas Robinson, alias Scott, a professional thief, was handcuffed and carried off to the county gaol. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction These he handed to a stout yokel to carry, and the whole party sallied forth towards the downs. A Cotswold Village A haunting and devilish desire seized him to break open the skulls of all these yokels and to look into their brains. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk I remember, one rainy day towards sunset, coming into a small hamlet where, in front of the church, some score of farmers and yokels were gathered, marshalled into a single line. The Maid-At-Arms The coach was none of your steady-going, yokel coaches, but a swaggering, rakish, dissipated London coach; up all night, and lying by all day, and leading a devil of a life. Martin Chuzzlewit Come hither, thou great yokel, at risk of fine and imprisonment.' Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor There was no great crowd of chaplains or of silly, gaping yokels, but of excellent knights and of people well equipped. Four Arthurian Romances For these yokels and their womenfolk the matter had passed altogether beyond their ken. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk Do officers of the Royal Greens conduct like yokels at a fair? The Maid-At-Arms The suspicious yokels searched him and in his pockets they found a copy of Horace, the Latin poet. The Story of Mankind There was a general bustle in the coffee-room: Mr. Hempseed and most of the yokels and fisher-folk had gone to make way for "the quality," and to finish smoking their pipes elsewhere. The Scarlet Pimpernel For from the Chautauqua itself she got nothing but wind and chaff and heavy laughter, the laughter of yokels at old jokes, a mirthless and primitive sound like the cries of beasts on a farm. Main Street The yokels who were assembled at the entrance of the forge turned to gaze with some curiosity at the squire of Acol. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk Hesitatingly, and like a clumsy yokel, I blurted: "I have been wondering whether you cared for the performance I gave?" The Fifth String They had been talking sneeringly about "yokels" and "jays" and "slum bums." Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise "So this is England," she said, as she looked round with childlike curiosity at the great hearth, the oak rafters, and the yokels with their elaborate smocks and jovial, rubicund, British countenances. The Scarlet Pimpernel Under the eyes of the grinning yokels, they shook hands. The Scarlet Car But here I look like a yokel on circus day compared to the other fellows in the store. Buttered Side Down: Stories With a cheery smile and beaming goggles, he moved among his constituents, joking with yokels, saying nice things to mothers, paying gallantries to girls, and chucking babies under the chin. A Knight of the Cumberland In spite of his hat, and his blue cotton shirt, and trousers rolled high on bare sunburned legs, there was nothing of the yokel about him. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise So he slows down passin' two yokels on the road, and he says, 'Did you see a big car along 'ere?' Three Elephant Power and Other Stories He kept poking around with his boot toe, and he said maybe the yokels didn't look good. Laddie; a true blue story The spectacle was always an immense success—the eight yokels straining, and tumbling over one another, while Hercule, wearing a masterful smile, kept his ten francs intact. A Chair on the Boulevard Austin, with all the world at his feet, comes down here, and what chance has a rough yokel like me against Austin? Viviette "Why, you cursed, interfering yokel! must I thrash you?" The Amateur Gentleman Your joys are the joys of a highly trained animal; your sorrows and your passions and your disappointments—they are at best those of the yokel. The Great Secret Its customers are yokels from the neighbouring village, but occasionally a gentleman may be found warming himself at the open hearth and drinking the best that the house contains. The Brown Mask A dozen of these yokels, red-eyed, cheerless as scarecrows, saw the incident. The Beautiful and Damned And, for the action's recompense, he was content to exhibit her to yokels, to make of her beauty an article of traffic. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Now "yokel" stung, for Barnabas remembered his blunt-toed boots, therefore he smiled with lips suddenly grim, and his politeness grew almost aggressive. The Amateur Gentleman Some said that he had gone on his knees to the yokels who had seized him. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Such a gentleman invariably rides a good horse, and is the recipient of open-mouthed admiration from the yokels. The Brown Mask This was something of which the yokels, or men of the plow, often complained. Welsh Fairy Tales If you know naught of soling, I understand nothing of sausages; you, who cut bad leather on the slant to make it look stout and deceive the country yokels. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 The wagon and cage were surrounded by almost a score of the slaves of the estate, with nearly as many more helpers; farm-slaves, farmers, teamsters, beast-warders, yokels and stragglers; the Villicus was near. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Those, and these six stout yokels, will make up my dozen.' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 He was seen at a neighboring fair, playing the fiddle in a booth to dancing yokels, and receiving their pence. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day The crowd, in turn, was astonished at the complete change that had come over the "yokel." Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) Oh! that's easy to guess," said the Baron; "some yokel or other. English Fairy Tales However, he did as well as the yokel, for he led us towards home. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 At every wayside cottage and red-tiled farmhouse the people swarmed out us we passed, with jugs full of milk or beer, shaking hands with our yokels, and pressing food and drink upon them. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 The yokel who had gaped at me, had been cheated by his companion, and was accordingly resentful. The Yeoman Adventurer The auctioneer spoke the question directly to this country yokel, while he winked at the crowd in front of him. Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) "So the yokels say hereabouts, Perry, but if half what I hear is true, it is haunted by things far worse—more evil than ghosts." Peregrine's Progress No. I only shot my men each through the body; and each of them deserved it: but it is an ugly chance; I should have been sorry to try it on that yokel. Two Years Ago, Volume I The volume contained also some minor pieces, including the dialect poem, 'The Northern Farmer,' with its humorous rendering of yokel speech. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Anyhow, I, the yokel, had improved on it, and that was something. The Yeoman Adventurer The country yokel again made as if to speak but changed his mind and backed away, facing the auctioneer. Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) The yokel behind has a stick in each hand. Adventures in Friendship Ling's realism went so far that his Northern gods and warriors, "everlastingly killed but to revive again," were deemed "pork-eating and mead-drinking yokels." Norwegian Life As soon as the village yokels saw my trunks being unloaded they all did the grand duck for the theatre to strike the house manager, thinking it was a show. The Sorrows of a Show Girl I knew the difference, for instinct is more than experience, and I chilled into the yokel again and wondered. The Yeoman Adventurer While he was contrasting in his mind the great difference between the rich and the poor in Samaria, several men, having nothing better to do, had stopped to stare at the yokel. Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) That big cove’s a yokel; ta’nt creditable to waste science on him. Yeast: a Problem P. C. Robinson will be swanking about then, telling the yokels what he did. The Postmaster's Daughter But, beyond wan and reticent yokels, engaged in the primitive husbandry of this slave section, they never encountered any one that could be counted overt enemies of the cause. The Iron Game A Tale of the War "Ha," thought I, "she's gauging my capacity to help her," and added aloud, bitterly reminiscent, "The life of a yokel, madam." The Yeoman Adventurer Reserve is not the leading characteristic of the average yokel. A Prefect's Uncle That was his description, and the Yorkshire yokels might go and read it—if read they could—in the pages of authority. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale With the charitable this passes for bashfulness; but to the impudent you are a craven, and to the ill-natured a yokel. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 This yokel was a sick man; he was thin and white; he had a racking cough, and he knew nothing about oil except from hearsay. Flowing Gold Brocton's 'yokel blood' gibe had put murder into my blows, but it had truth enough in it to make it rankle like a poisoned arrow. The Yeoman Adventurer I ask presently, as we return, rather like bashful yokels, to the library, and the old gentleman reading the Arabian Nights in the armchair in the corner glances up at me with a sudden curiosity. A Modern Utopia He was young, but no yokel; too knowing of town cunning and selfish hardness to entangle himself. The Life of the Fields When I was up in Saint Paul on my last trip," said he, "a country merchant—what a 'yokel' he was!—came in to meet me. Tales of the Road And none of the gaping yokels of the town obtained even a glimpse of the sick woman's pale face, as she was conducted to the covered carriage in waiting for the train. The Midnight Passenger : a novel "Curse you, will you never get out of your yokel's ways?" said I to myself. The Yeoman Adventurer A small, almost fragile, figure of a man, dressed in the mud- stained clothes of a country yokel, had turned up the shutter of a small lanthorn. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Permit the base-born yokel untutored sway to urge, The sceptre of dominion as soon becomes a scourge. Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus My yokel friend said: 'Well, you talk square and I want to buy of you. Tales of the Road “Here are some yokels who for once don’t hold their guns as if they were hoes.” Janice Meredith Two or three times the yokel he questioned didn't know, twice, however, he did get a definite assurance that Graves was ahead of him. The Boy Scout Aviators A dark-browed yokel came to the door with the bridle of Swart's best horse over his arm. Masters of the Guild And what maid could be blind to De Courtenay's sparkling grace,—compared to which he was himself a blundering yokel? The Maid of the Whispering Hills I sent for him, never letting my yokel friend get away from me a foot. Tales of the Road And thy father is as hot for thy marriage with that yokel. Janice Meredith It's bad enough to let these floundering yokels explode my little secret, without your cutting off with my books. The Invisible Man I thought you would stay in that old farmhouse all your life, scrubbing the floors and looking after the poultry, and perhaps marrying some good-natured country yokel! Innocent : her fancy and his fact Find it in your generous heart to offer me my pardon, for I have conducted like a yokel and a fool! The Hidden Children Let yokels coarse appease Their appetites with cheese. The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff “I knew of course thou wast a court gentleman, but—” “And now I suppose ye’ll send me packing and wed the yokel?” suggested the lover. Janice Meredith It took me some time to get assistance; but, after I had unfastened the bearing-reins and mobilised the yokels, the coachman, carriage and I returned safely to the house. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Two deeds are rank in that ghost's mind: a broken vow and the dullbrained yokel on whom her favour has declined, deceased husband's brother. Ulysses I am at heart what I pretended to be, fisherman, countryman, yokel, call me what you will. Jeanne of the Marshes My riding clothes were evidently a source of much wonderment and admiration to the yokels. Mates at Billabong These foreign prints are trustless as Cheap Jack Dumfounding yokels at a country fair. The Dynasts What did this handful of yokels amount to, anyhow?—dull, frivoling, barn-dancing boors. The Titan That helps him in war; whereas the yokel, or the sergeant—major type, is splendid until the shock comes. Now It Can Be Told My dear child," she said, "you have been asleep and dreamed these foolish things; or if not, these yokels to whom you have been listening are mad. Jeanne of the Marshes However, a friendly yokel gave me a lift out to Billabong in a very dirty and springless buggy, so that the mistake was not a fatal one, though it gave me a very uncomfortable drive. Mates at Billabong The features he would stamp upon him might be better applied to the Sussex yokel or the English country boor of whatever county. Irish Race in the Past and the Present His other women were merely the prizes the hero had to win in the end, like the sucking pig or the leg of mutton for which the yokel climbs the greasy pole. Idle Ideas in 1905 He suddenly became shy and developed a conceited grin—the grin of the village yokel whose cricket score is mentioned before a stranger. Where Angels Fear to Tread "To tell you the truth there is no one to ask within a dozen miles, and you particularly asked not to be bothered with meeting yokels." Jeanne of the Marshes And you went back into the house to look for us when all was over," said Mrs. Randolph, fixing her black, beady, magnetic eyes on Rose, "and that stupid yokel Zake brought you out again. A Sappho of Green Springs Evidently a performance had just taken place on the elevated platform beyond, for a few yokels seemed to be lingering in a desultory manner as if preparatory to going out. The Elusive Pimpernel Ashurst could see her face, angry, disturbed; and the youth's—who would have thought that red-faced yokel could look so distraught! Five Tales If first of a hundred yokels, why not first of two? Roundabout Papers Quite right," the Princess answered, "only I am getting a little bored, and if you had any yokels of the Mr. Andrew sort, with just a little more polish, they might be entertaining. Jeanne of the Marshes They sat on her as Sunday broadcloth on a yokel. Tommy and Co. She drew nearer to have a better look, and the yokels who had lingered behind, paused, wondering if she would make any remark. The Elusive Pimpernel "Would she have me become the model country parson, preaching to the squire and other yokels on Sunday, and chatting about their souls to wheezy Granfer this, and Gammer that?" Phyllis of Philistia We were not, I think, mere clownish yokels. The House of the Wolf; a romance It seemed shy, like a big yokel; the low roofs seemed to be ducking behind the hedges and railings; and the chimneys holding their breath. A Miscellany of Men When a poor yokel in England is enlisted with a shilling and a promise of unlimited beer and glory, one pities, and, if possible, would save him. North America — Volume 1 The Richmond yokels did not like the look of that reticule. The Elusive Pimpernel One George he insisted upon regarding as a buffoon, another as a yokel. The Works of Max Beerbohm "But when you win you brag and blow, And when you lose you rail, Army of eastland yokels Not strong enough to fail." The Ballad of the White Horse His wildest adventure will end in a restaurant, while the yokel's tamest adventure may end in a police-court. What's Wrong with the World If there was, the yokels who were his fellow boatmen never suspected it. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Country yokels came down on the wharf and sniggered at us. A Collection of Stories Nothing but genius could have drawn that simple yokel on the island, with his craving for cheese as a Christian dainty. Essays in Little I am a country yokel, and have hunted and drank, and lived too hard to look well among town gentlemen. A Lady of Quality Not in the stillest hamlet or the most stagnant fen could you find a yokel or a tramp who thought he lost his sexual dignity by being part of a political mob. What's Wrong with the World The stages of his transition from mere story-telling yokel—intellectual only as the artist is intellectual, in his methods of handling—to the man of ideas, are wholly lost. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War The coach was none of your steady-going yokel coaches, but a swaggering, rakish London coach; up all night, and lying by all day, and leading a wild, dissipated life. The New McGuffey Fourth Reader Trenchard sped after Wilding, who was elbowing his way through the yokels about the steps. Mistress Wilding He sang, he told stories that set all but one shrieking, he played the yokel, the humorous clodhopper; he was mad, mad with the revival of the old life in his blood. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million To forest, haunt of runs and prime repast, With paying blows, the yokel strained his yoke. Poems — Volume 3 He distinctly remembered himself walking across from one room to the other,—a dignified, even an aristocratic figure, primed with considered eloquence, intent upon a scathing remonstrance to these wretched yokels, regarding their manners. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll I have a notion that I sat there staring and listening like a yokel at a play. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes When I returned from throwing them overside, he was talking to Harrison, whose honest yokel’s face was filled with fascination and wonder. The Sea Wolf Before the blackbird pecked the turf they woke;At dawn the deer’s wet nostrils blew their last.To forest, haunt of runs and prime repast,With paying blows, the yokel strained his yoke. A Reading of Life, Other Poems They were just remote outlying things, and those creatures we have seen and fought with no more than ignorant peasants, dwellers in the outskirts, yokels and labourers half akin to brutes. The First Men in the Moon |
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