The dealer does not ask for payment in cash, but requires it in kind at the rate of 1 oke in every 4 okes of cocoons raised.
These are then sold for planting out in October-November-December at the rate of 40-50 okes per donum.
The former total represents an average yield of about 4 okes of "dry" cocoons, equal to about 18 kilograms of fresh cocoons per ounce of seed, and marks a slight improvement upon the ratio of eighteen years previously.
The average yield of unginned cotton on irrigated land is about 120 okes (3 cwts.
Whole rocks on rocks with yron joynd surveie, And okes with okes entremed disponed lie.
Okes there are as faire, straight, tall, and as good timber as any can be, and also great store, and in some places very great.
Maister Guise had of late, and still hath (for aught that I know) a manor in Glocestershire, where certeine okes doo grow, whose rootes are verie hard stone.
Yet diuerse haue assaied to deale without okes to that end, but not with so good successe as they haue hoped, bicause the ab or iuice will not so soone be remoued and cleane drawne out, which some attribute to want of time in the salt water.
So ofte must men on the oke smyte, til the happy dent have entred, whiche with the okes owne swaye 100 maketh it to come al at ones.
Ful many also there ben that in okes and in huge postes supposen love to ben grounded, as in strength and in might, whiche mowen not helpen their owne 30 wrecchidnesse, whan they ginne to falle.
A Bow’re growes green, set round with trembling Okes Which fanns the Heavens with gentle strokes.
Nicholas Okes declared that his son John had printed the book without his knowledge and while he (Nicholas) was a prisoner in the Compter.
One of the witnesses declared that Okes told him that he had printed the book with the consent of the Company, and that the Master (Humphrey Lownes) had declared that if he was committed they would get him discharged.
The only defence Okes made was that he believed the book to be duly licensed, and when challenged as to why he printed Marriot's name on the title-page, declared he simply printed the book as he found it.
At the end, author's Epistle to Nicholas Okes (the printer), signed.
Okes for William Leake, and are to be sold at his shop in Chancery-lane neere the Roules.
After this trouble and delay he returns to his home with the official permit to remove to a specified place (generally Limasol) a fixed quantity of wine, which is calculated by the load; one load equals 128 okes of 2.
Then you ought to have taken more care of it,' he will reply; `how many okes of plums were there upon those trees?
June 18|John Okes |The Knave in Grain, or Jack | | Cottington.
The Okes of Okehurst could trace back to Norman, almost to Saxon times, far longer than any of the titled or better-known families of the neighbourhood.
Then the Bosphorus was lined with vineyards, and it was profitable to cultivate them, to exchange eight okesof grapes or two okes of wine for one of bread.
Fifty years ago for one oke of bread a man might have one oke of meat, or eight okes of fruit or two okes of wine.
It is probable that the kingdom founded by Deïokes originally included what was afterwards termed Media Magna by the Græco-Roman geographers.
Whereupon Deïokes had a great palace built, and enrolled a bodyguard to attend upon him.
Deïokes was proposed and warmly praised by all, so they agreed to elect him.
The principality founded by Deïokes about the beginning of the seventh century B.
According to one tradition, it had only three kings in an entire century: Deïokes up till 655 B.
All these fortifications Deïokes caused to be raised for himself and his own palace; the people he required to dwell outside the citadel.
The existence of Deïokes has been called in question by Grote and by the Rawlinsons.
Decant the whole upon a royal díbáqy divan and add to it 2 okes of saliva syrup and drink it fasting during 3 days.
And when they straightway proposed the question whom they should set up to be king, Deïokes was much put forward and commended by every one, until at last they agreed that he should be their king.
This last made war against Kyaxares the descendant of Deïokes and against the Medes, 15 and he drove the Kimmerians forth out of Asia, and he took Smyrna which had been founded from Colophon, and made an invasion against Clazomenai.
These walls then Deïokes built for himself and round his own palace, and the people he commanded to dwell round about the wall.
There are twenty-four factories, in which yearly two thousand five hundred bales of cotton yarn, of one hundred cotton okes each, were dyed (6138 cwts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "okes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
