Are you going to spend your life out here in the sticks, with cattle, horses, and a few yokels that you have to ride miles and miles, before you see two of 'em together?
This is what I have in mind, Mr. Welborn; I want to run away--run away from the yaps and yokels and the gawkers and get out where nobody can see me and where I can act just like a man.
They don't have to meet a daily schedule, don't have to spread canvas in the rain or look at a mob tittering yokels all the time.
You can throw 'em all into one of two groups: yokels and shilabers.
Its customers are yokels from the neighbouring village, but occasionally a gentleman may be found warming himself at the open hearth and drinking the best that the house contains.
Feversham and Churchill march with the regular troops against you, and your army of yokels must go down like a field of corn before the reapers.
Philip, listening intently, while they gave their breathless answers, knew that the body was found, and that the frightened yokels were off in search of the village constable.
Thus it came about that the great little man descended on the village, early on the afternoon preceding Philip's night adventure in the garden, and stirred the already startled community of yokels to its depths.
Country yokelscame down on the wharf and sniggered at us.
They aim like yokelsat a Wappenschaw,' said Saxon, seating himself on the side of the waggon.
Some said that he had gone on his knees to the yokels who had seized him.
They appeared to be a respectable company, mostly honest yokels from the village, clad in plain homespun.
Ay," broke in Harrington, "they tell us that we are yokels without wit or knowledge to fire a musket.
To tell the truth, I had no actual fear then; it seemed so impossible that these Johnstown yokels really meant to take my life, even if they caught me--this ass of a Toby Tice whom I had tipped for holding my stirrup more than once.
I remember, one rainy day towards sunset, coming into a small hamlet where, in front of the church, some score of farmers and yokels were gathered, marshalled into a single line.
Do officers of the Royal Greens conduct like yokels at a fair?
It is not for me to blame him in his wrath, when, beside himself with righteous fury, he gave the bellowing yokelstheir heads and swept on with them to destruction.
The yokels had now recovered some of their senses, and they greeted my plan with hoarse mutterings of hasty and submissive assent.
Paddy was dancing with delight at seeing some other man cuffed, but the landlord and the yokelswere nearly dead of terror.
By this time a crowd had collected and though I was minded to get word to Alvaston 'twas too late, Rington's keepers and the yokels were all about me.
But if we do that, what is to become of the yokels that are on board?
Although freed from their oppressors, the ignorantyokels found themselves helpless, for the brig soon got in irons[1].
When the torrent was fairly going, two of the supposed yokels snatched up carbines, climbed on to the hovel, and opened fire on the dragoons in our rear.
It even struck Sir Humphrey as very strange, and he pushed through the group of yokels to hear more clearly Master Inch's renewed description of the rogue.
And thus Bathurst passed quickly and unperceived; the one or two yokels whom he met gave him a rapid glance.
Brassing Moor harbours more miscreants than any corner of the county," laughed the young soldier, "but methought Beau Brocade only existed in the imagination of your half-witted yokels about here.
One or two of the yokels may perhaps guess who I am, but they'd do me no harm.
A few yokels only patronised it to the extent of sipping their small ale there, in the parlour when it was wet, or outside the porch when it was fine.
Those twoyokels both had big families and they didn't do such a big business either.
When I was a kid I had a chance to go into the store of a couple of yokels upstate in the town where I was born and raised; and I guess if I'd done so I'd been married and had a whole family of children by now.
Two of the constables moved towards me, while the rest of the yokels stared at me openmouthed.
At this the yokels began to boo more vehemently, but Mr. Dorward managed to shut the door and lock it, after which he walked across to the discomfited Treacherite and, holding out his hand, apologized for his violence.
When it was over, the congregation dispersed into the churchyard, where the yokels hung about waiting for the vicar to come out.
But here were yokels from Calne and Bowood, who knew not Sir Robert; with Bristol lambs and men as dangerous, and not a few Radicals from a distance, rabid with zeal and overflowing with promises.
Here a Waterman agreed to take me to the Tower stairs for a shilling, which was not above thrice his legal fare, but yokels and simpletons are common prey in this great village of London.
His parasite the beadle went with him, but a considerable number of the yokels stayed to keep us company.
His yokels of course were at a loss to know what to do in the circumstances, but I did what I could by propping his head on my knee, and dispatching one of the men to the house for some brandy.
Seeing him to be somewhat the worse, his yokels ran to him, whilst I went too, and rendered him all the assistance that lay in my power.
A haunting and devilish desire seized him to break open the skulls of all these yokels and to look into their brains.
For these yokels and their womenfolk the matter had passed altogether beyond their ken.
The yokels who were assembled at the entrance of the forge turned to gaze with some curiosity at the squire of Acol.
But since that gruesome murder on the beach forty-eight hours ago and more, both the quality and the yokels preferred to venture abroad in company.
It does not become our position to quarrel like twoyokels at a fair," said he; "we shall go further into the matter afterwards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yokels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
