Yawns
[jɔ:nz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
The air-breaks on a sleeper.
Edited by Annabel
Examples
- The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What were the yawns of Lady Bertram? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The cousin, who has been casting sofa-pillows on his head, in a prostration of boredom yawns, Vayli, being the used-up for very likely. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He found Holmes leaning languidly against the mantelpiece, resigned and patient, endeavouring to conceal his irrepressible yawns. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Again the arch yawns; they come. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There no dense partition of yawns and toilets divides humanity by night from humanity by day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Annabel