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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
-- Oscar Wild...
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 98...
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 62...
yeti: (also called abominable snowman, bigfoot, sasquatch)
large upright creature that roams the high country....
Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope
but still bear up and steer Right onward....
Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Locksley Hall, Line 137...
Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act iv, Sc.
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Yet in my lineaments they trace Some features of my father's face.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Parisina, Stanza 13...
Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Prologue, Line 3880...

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