"Yow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one night old; and she regarded him through her almond eyes with a supercilious look, as who should say, "Now, if he was only a bottle, instead of a big, useless policeman, why, one might put up with him;" which reflection opened the flood-gates of grief and set the little Chinee squalling: "Yow! Yow! Yap!" until the Sergeant held his ears, and a policeman carried it upstairs in ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis
... "Yow!" Marcus exclaimed. "You could just so much see from his head that his grandfather is a rabbi as you could see from his hands that his father is a crook." He turned impatiently away. "So instead you should be talking a lot of nonsense, Philip, you should set the boy ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... ride, your aduise therein I expect it shall not cost aboue three robles, and yet if we will, there shall be two warme roomes in it. As for other matter at this present I haue not to trouble you withall, and if it would please yow I would be glad to heare some good newes of Master Ienkinson. Thus Iesus be with you ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, • Richard Hakluyt
... will have his day," he could not have selected a more unpropitious one than this. Mrs. Ogleton, too, had a pet—a favorite pug—whose squab figure, black muzzle, and tortuosity of tail, that curled like a head of celery in a salad-bowl, bespoke his Dutch extraction. Yow! yow! yow! continued the brute—a chorus in which Flo instantly joined. Sooth to say, pug had more reason to express his dissatisfaction than was given him by the muse of Simpkinson; the other only barked for company. Scarcely had ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... too bad," said Judson when they went on deck. "That idiot has exceeded his instructions, but - but yow must ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling
... Tadpoles, who had been at Saint Dominic's two years, was amazing. He glared at the rash Stephen for half a minute, and then broke out, "Won't I? that's all! you see, you pretty little blubber boy! Yow-ow-ow! little sneak! why don't you cut behind your mammy's skirt, if you're afraid? I would cry if I were you. Where's his bottle? Poor ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
... alive there!" shouted the coachman from the booking-office door, as Valentine and his Uncle John approached. "Have yow got that are mare's shoe made ...
— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various
... in his Maj'tys name to Authorize and Require yow, Capt. James Olliver, Capt. Edward Hutchinson, upon Receipt hereof forth with to repaire to the sd River of piscatage and there to Apply yourselves to Capt. Brian pendleton and mr. Richard Cutts, ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables{7} weren wyde, And wel we wern esed att beste. And schortly, whan the sonn was to reste, So hadde I spoken with hem everychon, That I was of here felaweschipe anon, And mad forward erly for to ryse, To take our wey ther as I yow devyse. But nathles, whil I have tyme and space, Or{8} that I forther in this tal pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To tell yow al the condicioun{9} Of eche of hem, so as it semede me, And whiche they weren, and of what degre; ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... chamberlayn of Englond & leutenant of Ireland oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of France/ your most humble servant william Caxton amonge other of your servantes sendes unto yow peas. helthe. Joye and victorye upon your Enemyes/ Right highe puyssant and." The text ends on the seventy-third recto, thus:—"And sende yow thaccomplisshement of your hye noble. Joyous and vertuous desirs Amen:/: Fynysshid the lastday of Marche the yer of our lord god. a. thousand foure ...
— Game and Playe of the Chesse - A Verbatim Reprint Of The First Edition, 1474 • Caxton
... swiche manere penances on thy flesh ne make nat thyn herte bitter or angry or anoyed of thy-self; for bettre is to caste awey thyn heyre, than for to caste away the sikernesse of Jesu Crist. And therfore seith seint Paul: 'Clothe yow, as they that been chosen of God, in herte of misericorde, debonairetee, suffraunce, and swich manere of clothinge'; of whiche Jesu Crist is more apayed than of heyres, or haubergeons, ...
— The Cell of Self-Knowledge - Seven Early English Mystical Treaties • Various
... traces of Norman masonry. One of the most fruitful sources of information about social life in the fifteenth century are the Paston Letters. In one written by John Paston in 1472 to "Mestresse Margret Paston," he tells her of the arrival of a visitor, and continues: "I praye yow make hym goode cheer ... it were best to sette hys horse at the Maydes Hedde, and I shall be content for ther expenses." During the Civil War this inn was the rendezvous of the Royalists, but alas! one day Cromwell's soldiers made an attack on the "Maid's Head," and took for their prize the ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield
... so many corruptions of the true name (of God) which was engraved on the triangle of Enoch. In this engraving the vowel points are so arranged as to give the pronunciation which you have just received (Yow-ho). This word, when thus pronounced, is called the ineffable word, which cannot be altered as other words are, and the degrees which you have received, are called, on this account, INEFFABLE DEGREES. This word you will recollect was not ...
— The Mysteries of Free Masonry - Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge • William Morgan
... law in his favour. Thereupon he called God to witness that he intended not their trouble but their comfort, and felt sure that to reject the Word of God, and drive away His messenger, was not the way to save themselves from trouble; adding, "God shall send unto yow messengeris who will not be effrayed of hornyng nor yitt for banishment."[64] He left the town forthwith, and with all "possible expeditioun passed to the west-land."[65] There he pursued his labours in the same kindly spirit, refusing to allow his ...
— The Scottish Reformation - Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics • Alexander F. Mitchell
... sorow. Spudeus The more nerelier I note your saiynges, the better I like the. Hedo. Go too, let vs graunt for a tyme these thynges too bee called pleasaunt, that in very dede ar not. Would yow saye that meeth were swete: whiche had more Aloes myngled with it, then honye? Spud. I woulde not so say and if there were but the third part of an ounce of Aloes mixt with it. Hedo. Or els, would ...
— A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure • Desiderius Erasmus
... yet, daddy!" came a sleep-freighted voice from under the table; "I ain't ready. I dunno want to go to bed, I— Hi yow!" ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole
... of aunters wynne, That late within this lande hath bin, Of on I will yow telle; And of a sewe that was sea strang, Alas! that ever scho lived sea lang, For fell folk ...
— Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England • Robert Bell
... Magnasia, good sire, I yow preye?' 'It is a water that is maad, I seye, Of elementes foure,' quod Plato. 'Telle me the roote, good sire,' quod he tho, Of that water, if it be youre wille.' 'Nay, nay,' quod Plato, 'certein that I nylle; The philosophres sworn were everychoon That they sholden discovers ...
— The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry • M. M. Pattison Muir
... "Yow! I am sad that what I did was not right," the z'Srauff Ambassador replied contritely. "But my person here has not as part of his knowledge that you will make him say what may put ...
— Lone Star Planet • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
... take a tumble to herself," said Nat Hicks, sucking in his lips judicially. "As far as I'm concerned, I'll say she's as nice a looking skirt as there is in town. But yow!" His tone electrified them. "Guess she'll miss that Swede Valborg that used to work for me! They was a pair! Talking poetry and moonshine! If they could of got away with it, they'd of ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... sword under 70. You are to have a special care that the old fox and his sones do not escape your hands. You are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. This you are to put in execution at fyve of the clock precisely. And by that time, or very shortly after it, I will strive to be at yow with a stronger party. If I do not come to yow at fyve, you are not to tarry for me, but to fall on. This by the King's special commands, for the good and safety of the country, that these miscreants be ...
— The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) - (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) • James Pringle Thomson
... often the diuisor maye be founde in the diuident, {and} that I fynde 3 tymes, then set I 3 in the thyrde lyne for the quotient, and take awaye that 60000 fro{m} the diuident, and farther I do set the diuisor one line lower, as yow se here. ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous
... for tydyngs her but if it be of the fest I can non send yow; savyng my Lady Margaret was maryed on Sonday last past at a town that is called Dame IIj myle owt of Brugge at v of the clok in the morning; & sche was browt the same day to Bruggys to hyr dener; & ther sche was receyvyd as worchepfully ...
— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam
... {obscure} and {hairy} (sense 1). "{Yow!} — the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... "Yow-ee!" yelled Stover. "We knew you would!" Willie was beaming benignantly through his glasses, while both Carara and Cloudy showed their heartfelt gratitude. "Thank you, Miss Blake. Now we'll show up that shave-tail Centipede crowd for ...
— Going Some • Rex Beach
... of Jhesu Til this rym y telle yow Were turned in to englisch, A thousand thre hondred & seventy And fyve yere witterly. Thus ...
— Early Theories of Translation • Flora Ross Amos
... folkes, he or she, In which that love up groweth with your age, Repeyreth hoom from worldly vanitee, And of your herte up-casteth the visage To thilke god that after his image Yow made, and thinketh al nis but a fayre This world, that passeth sone ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... God oure right trusty and welbeloved, we grete yow wel. And forasmuche as we lete sende for Maistre Richard Garsedale oon of the contendentes of the prevoste of the Oriell to that ende that for his partie shulde no thyng be poursuyd neither at the courte of Rome ne elleswhere, but that that contraversie shulde be put in respit ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler
... man his hap despise: I wot well ye have longe served, And God wot what ye have deserved; But if it is along[12] on me Of that ye unadvanced be, Or else if it be long on yow, The soothe shall be proved now: To stoppe with your evil word, Lo! here two coffers on the board; Choose which you list of bothe two; And witteth well that one of tho Is with treasure so full begon, That if he happe thereupon Ye shall be riche men ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... "Eee—yow!" he howled, brandishing a handful of Naples yellow mixed with coral which he hurled at the canvas. "Zow! Bam! Ooh, la la!" His shrieks roused his escorts and brought a rapidly swelling crowd to the dune, where, ...
— The Cruise of the Kawa • Walter E. Traprock
... "Wow! wow! yow!" yelled Shanter, struggling to get free, and then blowing his fingers. "Marmi hurt mine. Burn hands, burn all down ...
— The Dingo Boys - The Squatters of Wallaby Range • G. Manville Fenn
... remembre howe It is noo maydens lawe, Nothing to dought, but to renne out To wod with an outlawe; For ye must there in your hande bere A bowe to bere and drawe; And, as a theef, thus must ye lyeue, Euer in drede and awe, By whiche to yow gret harme myght grow: Yet had I leuer than, That I had too the grenewod goo, Alone a ...
— Ballads of Romance and Chivalry - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series • Frank Sidgwick
... necke, and toke holy water wyth hym, and cam wyth the sexten toward the church; and as sone as he entred in the chyrche yard, the talyer wyth the whyte shepe on hys neck intendyng, as I before haue shewyd yow, to go downe to the myll, met with them, and had went that the prest in his surples had ben the mylner in his whyte cote, and seyd to hym: by God! I haue hym, I haue hym! meanynge thereby[33] the shepe that he had stolen. The prest, perceyuynge the tayller ...
— Shakespeare Jest-Books; - Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed - to Have Been Used by Shakespeare • Unknown
... yow is borne ane childe Of Marie meike and Virgine mylde, That blessit barne, bining and kynde, Sall yow ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) • Harrison S. Morris
... be here, sayd the damoysels for thys cause, yf we may see ony erraunt knyghtes to teche hem unto straunge auentures, and ye be thre knyghtes that seken auentures, and we be thre damoysels, and therfore eche one of yow must chose one of us. And whan ye haue done soo, we wylle lede yow vnto thre hyhe wayes, and there eche of yow shall chese a wey and his damoysel wyth hym. And this day twelue monethe ye must mete here ageyn and god sende yow your lyues, and ther to ye must plyzte your trouthe. This is wel said, ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman
... Poperinge Could neuer drape her wool for any thing, But if they had English woll withall. Our goodly wooll which is so generall Needefull to them in Spaine and Scotland als, And other costes, this sentence is nnot false: Yee worthy Marchants I doe it vpon yow, I haue this learned ye wot well where and howe: Ye wotte the Staple of that Marchandie, Of this Scotland is Flaunders sekerly. And the Scots bene charged knowen at the eye, Out of Flanders with little Mercerie, And great plentie ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... Scottysh prisoner tayne, Sir Hew Mongomery was his name; For sooth as I yow saye, He ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang |
