Having made the circuit of the tomb three times, he unyoked his horses, and retired once more to his tent, leaving his lifeless victim face downwards in the dust.
Both Hera and Athene knew full well how far they might presume on the indulgence of Zeus, and without another word they turned back to Olympus, unyokedtheir steeds, and with quaking hearts joined the company of the gods.
When the strange rite was ended, the couch, which had been brought out for this purpose, was carried back with its burden to the tent, and they unyoked their horses, and prepared to take their supper.
I couldn't cook, and as a rule when I unyoked my oxen after the day's work I was too played out to light a fire.
He gathered them round him when the horses had been unyoked and tethered.
I will not kill him however angry she be;' so they unyoked their ploughs and went home.
I unyoked with despatch, then left the bullocks, and rode round, looking for a clump of mallee, which would indicate the immediate neighbourhood of the water.
The bullocks were unyoked with all speed, and stood around waiting to see what provision would be made for the night.
Sometimes he would have an ox-goad in his hand, and you would have said he had just unyoked his weary oxen.
It was but half an hour before dark that they unyoked the tired oxen.
These campers must have driven until after dark, for it seemed they did not have their oxen unyoked, for we alwaysunyoked our oxen as soon as we stopped.
In his poem in praise of the prowess of Leinstermen, he says, that they "unyoked their horses on the ramparts of clerical Cashel.
It cut me to the very soul to see My oxen, noble creatures, when the knave Unyoked them from the plough.
And the rest put off each his glittering bronze arms, and unyoked their high-neighing horses, and sate them down numberless beside the ship of fleet-footed Aiakides, and he gave them ample funeral feast.
For him also the noble Shaker of Earth unyoked the steeds, and set the car upon the stand, and spread a cloth thereover; and far-seeing Zeus himself sate upon his golden throne, and beneath his feet great Olympus quaked.
Medb suffered not her chariot to be let down nor her horses unyokeduntil she had made a circuit of the camp.
Grass had been very scarce, and now when we unyoked them and turned them out they did not care to look around much for something to eat.
There was a good deal of talk, but finally when Doty demanded that their cattle be unyoked and the others separated from the herd, they yielded and gave them all their stock, some seventy head.
Hearing this ridicule, Theseus had unyoked a loaded wagon that stood near by and had thrown it lightly up into the air to the marvel of all who saw him.
But the following day a farmer stopped at the orchard, an ox goad in his hand as if he had just unyoked a pair of weary oxen from his hay cart, left them resting beside some stream, and had gone on to ask refreshment for himself.
He again unyoked the Dane, and asked if any one was willing to become his antagonist.
Now, I wished the big chief farther off, but, as it seemed rude to refuse the request of one who had been so kind to me, I ordered the oxen to be unyoked but kept at hand, and in an irritable frame of mind walked up to the kraal.
These unyoked the horses and mules, and bade Priam's herald and attendant be seated within the house.
Now the Trojans when they had come out of the fight, unyoked their horses and gathered in assembly before preparing their supper.
She turned her steeds; the Hours presently unyoked them, made them fast to their ambrosial mangers, and leaned the chariot against the end wall of the courtyard.
The mighty lord of the earthquake unyoked his horses for him, set the car upon its stand, and threw a cloth over it.
Now there is a certain huge cavern in the depths of the sea midway between Tenedos and rocky Imbrus; here Neptune lord of the earthquake stayed his horses, unyoked them, and set before them their ambrosial forage.
In two minutes his pair was unyoked and tied to the beam of the plough, his coat off and cast at the back of the dyke, and as sturdy a pair of legs as any in Liddesdale had joined in the chase.
The robber had not failed to hear the laird's shouts, and as Little unyoked his horses, he ran on, adding still more to the distance that already separated him from his pursuers.
After having unyoked them, he recovered his hat and went up the gulch and stayed over night with Stuart, Malcolm Morrow and Charles Olsen, who were then mining there.
The ox, unyoked and resting from the plough, Wants fodder, stripped from elm or poplar bough.
Then Dan unyoked them, took out the long swinging tree that divided them--a heavy wooden bar clamped with iron--and they stood free and began to nibble the grass under their feet.
When the dinner bell rang at the Court at twelve o'clock, the oxen would stop short, no matter where they were or what they were doing, and not another budge would they make until they had been unyoked and led off for their midday mash.
There Aeifa called a halt, and the horses were unyoked for rest.
So the man, descrying a narrow window at one side, climbed to it from an unyoked chariot that was near, and looked in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unyoked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
