Yaou know that, sir, as well as I do, and my meanin' is there's barges and barges.
Do yaou mean to say you've left that pore animal there?
Yaou tould me there warn't no daown train for twenty minutes," I says.
As yaou knaow, sir, scores and scores o' barges 'av bruk the biggest rope they carry that way and gone slidin' daown the wind.
I dessay yaou remember some time back abaout they chaps what was caught pickin' up winkles in the Maldon River.
Then agin, same as in the London docks, yaou ast any barge skipper yaou like haow long a barge can lay there without a lighter or a tug or suthen wantin' she to shift.
In the dawn of Chinese history allusions are made to a great flood which desolated the land, and the Emperor Yaou has been immortalised for his achievements in subduing and regulating the waters.
Again, when Yaou had been on the throne seventy years, a dragon-horse appeared bearing a scheme, which he laid on the table and went away.
The commentary of the same work adds that (among a variety of prodigies) the phoenix appeared in the seventieth year of the reign of Yaou (B.
As he advanced in years he became an earnest student of history, and looked back with love and reverence to the time when the great and good Yaou and Shun reigned in: "A golden age, fruitful of golden deeds.
Him and me's jest like the figger ten: if yaou haul off the one we ain't good for nothin'.
If yaou want to see a faithful friend, jest clap yer eyes on Sam Whittlefield.
Naow, deny it if yaou kin," said Captain Sol, turning to his friend.
The only thing, it's dampish like; but perhaps mother here kin rig yaou aout.
A superior official, entitled the "President of the Four Mountains" is mentioned as the counsellor of Emperor Yaou in the Shu King.
YAOU and YU=mythical emperors who instituted the celestial kingdom, see p.
The institution of the calendar by the Emperor Yaou is described at length in the Shu King.
Confucius said of this remarkable personage, "Heaven alone is great, but Yaou is able to imitate Heaven.
Legge cites Pritchard's (Savilian Professor, Oxford University) chart as a proof of the correctness of the chronology which places Yaou in the 24th century B.
Complete wisdom was to be found only among the ancient sages; by no mental endeavor could any man hope to equal the supreme wisdom of Yaou and of Shun.
When the three years' mourning consequent on the death of Yaou were accomplished, Shun withdrew from the son of Yaou to the south of the southern Ho.
I have heard that E Yin sought an introduction to T[']ang by the principles of Yaou and Shun; I have not heard he did so by his knowledge of cookery.
Is it not best for me to abide in these channeled fields, and therein delight myself with the principles of Yaou and Shun?
Shun assisted Yaou in the government for twenty and eight years; this was more than man could have done, and was from Heaven.
When Yaou was old, Shun took the management of affairs for him.
Wan Chang said, "It is said that Yaou gave the empire to Shun; was it so?
E Yin was farming in the lands of the State of Sin, delighting in the principles of Yaou and Shun.
Anciently Yaou presented Shun to Heaven, and Heaven accepted him; he displayed him to the people, and the people accepted him.
He thought that among all the people of the kingdom, even the private men and women, if there were any that did not enjoy such benefits as Yaou and Shun conferred, it was as if he himself pushed them into a ditch.
I not better make this people like the people of Yaou and Shun?
Chang said, "I presume to ask how it was that Yaou presented Shun to Heaven, and Heaven accepted him, and displayed him to the people, and the people accepted him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yaou" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
