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    yon


    1. The side of the ship where the mothers of his children should be languishing in the universe of their desires with castrated servants who delighted in moving furniture hither and yon


    2. "And these be yon flowers for just prettiness," she finished with a gush


    3. Round yon virgin mother and child


    4. “Your quite Billy Boy what do you think about yon women?” I turned to him and said


    5. “Bloody silly yon man was they hit him dead centre of the forehead blood and brains all over the place poor sod never knew what hit him boyo


    6. “What’s yon bloke rabbiting on about?” A voice from behind us said


    7. “Don’t thank yon bastard he should have left me there to die instead of bringing me in and leaving me like this


    8. But it would seem that yon long range snipers can’t even get that right”, and he spat on the floor in disgust


    9. “We have a plan that will be hatching sometime tomorrow, just as yon ship, the Calamity, arrives into your tiny port here


    10. Suddenly, the strange wharf on the edge of the marshlands started to buzz with activity as pirates ran hither and yon with ropes and chains

    11. Yon can only know the fruit


    12. I pray ye show me the path of yon Dweller


    13. The Leader on the wolf-beast yon carries it!”


    14. He gestured towards the entrance yon, “This be the portal’s Wisdom Hall


    15. If Thou wouldst seek Thy fairest home, ‘tis through yon threshold just ahead


    16. “I loosely tailed both Gerard Lipinski and Harry Dubs around town---going to-and-fro, hither and yon and betwixt and between for our cause


    17. Say hello to thy cousin pubes scattered in and about yon urinal that will not flusheth


    18. “I fear the combination of hat and shoes might have made entry to yon establishment well nigh impossible! Fashion, I sense, is frequently a stranger to practicality!”


    19. of the distant yon mist,


    20. Yon tower, nine storeys high, rose from a little mound of earth

    21. Yon young Marie that works at the


    22. "This is the place, oh, ye heavens, that I select and choose for bewailing the misfortune in which ye yourselves have plunged me: this is the spot where the overflowings of mine eyes shall swell the waters of yon little brook, and my deep and endless sighs shall stir unceasingly the leaves of these mountain trees, in testimony and token of the pain my persecuted heart is suffering


    23. Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody,


    24. "But there's that much draught i' yon scullery, as it blows through your ribs like through a five-barred gate


    25. vase had olives in it! Yon never showed them to me


    26. "Wah!" answered Joseph, "yon dainty chap says he cannut ate 'em


    27. These Iroquois are cunning, but they outwitted themselves when they placed their firearms out of reach; and had Uncas or his father been gifted with only their common Indian patience, we should have come in upon the knaves with three bullets instead of one, and that would have made a finish of the whole pack; yon loping varlet, as well as his commerades


    28. You will find a beautiful print of it just opposite yon rock, agin the hillside


    29. Golly, whatten tunket's yon guy in the mackintosh? Dusty Rhodes


    30. BIDDY THE CLAP: Methinks yon sable knight will joust it with the best

    31. Said he to Troll: 'Pray, what is yon?


    32. One problem with the stock market is the herd instinct that drives it hither and yon on superstition, greed, fashion and uncertainty


    33. He’s noan feared o’ t’ bench o’ judges, norther Paul, nur Peter, nur John, nur Matthew, nor noan on ’em, not he! He fair likes—he langs to set his brazened face agean ’em! And yon bonny lad Heathcliff, yah mind, he’s a rare ’un


    34. I was half inclined to make it try; however, he moved off to open the door, and, as he raised the latch, he looked up to the inscription above, and said, with a stupid mixture of awkwardness and elation: “Miss Catherine! I can read yon, now


    35. Philander; "permit me to suggest that doubtless the Moors who were conquered in the fifteenth century will continue in that most regrettable condition for the time being at least, even though we postpone discussion of that world calamity until we may attain the enchanting view of yon FELIS CARNIVORA which distance proverbially is credited with lending


    36. White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! Here have I heard all their chat just now, and the white whale—shirr! shirr!—but spoken of once! and only this evening—it makes me jingle all over like my tambourine—that anaconda of an old man swore 'em in to hunt him! Oh, thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!


    37. Nor smile so, while I write that this little black was brilliant, for even blackness has its brilliancy; behold yon lustrous ebony, panelled in king's cabinets


    38. "Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strivest, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun, that only calls forth life, but gives it not again


    39. Look at that castle which overhangs yon precipice; and that also on the island, almost concealed amongst the foliage of those lovely trees; and now that group of labourers coming from among their vines; and that village half hid in the recess of the mountain


    40. Yon silly moon upon the brink

    41. They follow on yon sea-bird's track


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    Synonyms for "yon"

    yon yonder

    "yon" definitions

    distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)


    at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal)