I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

`` Oh yes, the other day I reread some of Emerson's English Traits, and there was an anecdote about a group of English and Americans visiting Germany, more than a hundred years ago.

`` Oh, yes '', I said, feeling annoyed, `` she was very pretty.

And he certainly couldn't have guessed that she would resist his demand for the gold or that she was not the yielding -- yes, and credible fool he had every right to expect.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

The standard format was that of speakers making speeches for and against a position followed by a general vote ( usually by show of hands ) of yes or no.

For a small category of votes a quorum of 6000 was required, principally grants of citizenship, and here small coloured stones were used, white for yes and black for no.

There are then three functions: the officeholders organized and saw to the complex protocols ; Ho boulomenos was the initiator and the proposer of content ; and finally the people, massed in assembly or court or convened as lawmakers, made the decisions, either yes or no, or choosing between alternatives.

" Holly went to her guardian's house the next morning and Maria came running at him and jumped into his arms, which was a sign to him that it was a " yes ".

While the steps to follow in the case of a triumph of the " yes " option, which the document obviously anticipated, were clearly delineated, the steps for the " no " triumph were less so, but still clear enough that no serious doubt emerged when the " no " option actually was victorious in the 1988 plebiscite.

However, a planned referendum on a roadmap towards independence in 2001 was called off following Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen saying that Danish money grants would be phased out within four years if there was a ' yes ' vote.

The woman than asked if Worthington was funding them still, Bobby told her yes and asked why she wanted to know, she said because she was going to have a lot of overtime.

To which the pupil's answer was to be " yes "; as it was to be to the question " Is it true that a Mixt ought to be preferred to a Peripatetic, a Ramist, a Lullian, and the others?

Cagney had long been told by friends that he would make an excellent director, so when he was approached by his friend, producer A. C. Lyles, he instinctively said yes.

Every woman has had the experience of saying no when she meant yes, and saying yes when she meant no.

Asked by an ILP reporter if she were prepared to spend time in prison, Pankhurst replied: " Oh, yes, quite.

There is also a legend that Theodelinda, asleep while her husband was hunting, saw a dove in a dream that told her: modo ( Latin for " here ") indicating that she should build the oraculum in that place, and the queen answered etiam, meaning " yes ".

" Stone responded by mounting the speaker's platform and retorting that yes, she was indeed a " disappointed woman.

Although Job fears for his child and tries unsuccessfully to explain to her the nature of prejudice she will encounter as a Jew abroad, he finally, tearfully and joyfully, says yes to her.

Instead, she communicates using a green light which means yes, a red light which means no, and a flashing red light which means she has soiled herself.

* On The Beatles ' album, Abbey Road ( 1969 ), John Lennon sings, on the song " Polythene Pam ", " She's the kind of a girl that makes the News of the World, yes you could say she was attractively built.

She only knew how to say " yes " and " no " when she was rescued.

For example, when her mother asks if she and Charlie had a fight, she replies yes — but about " house payments ," talking about their future divorce.

" This caused controversy not only because Sauvé had contradicted her earlier statement about Rideau Hall, wherein she said: " oh yes, definitely, it has to be open ," but also because it denied Ottawa residents the use of the palace grounds.

She never questions or explains why she finds herself in the predicament she is in most of us never understand how we wind up in a rut, or stuck in the mud to use similar earthy metaphors but her dream is that she will “ simply float up into the blue … And that perhaps some day the earth will yield and let me go, the pull is so great, yes, crack all round me and let me out .”

yes, they had read about the case ; ;

yes, they had let some reporters use their phone, but they would no longer.

And the old man had given a sly and wicked laugh and said, `` Hell, yes!!

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

`` Oh, yes -- you had ideas ''!!

Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali politician who had campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, eventually wound up as the nation's first president ( 1977 – 1999 ).

Kesselring also had to contend with Göring appointing " yes men " to positions of importance.

The Labour Party argued that the " yes " votes amounted to less than 50 % of the overall votes, hence, and citing the Integration referendum as an example, they claimed that the " yes " had not in fact won the referendum.

Djibouti finally gained its independence from France in 1977, and Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali who had campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, eventually wound up as Djibouti's first president ( 1977 – 1991 ).

Mulroney famously responded, " You had an option, sirto say ' no ' and you chose to say ' yes ' to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party.

' You had an option, sir -- to say ' no ' — and you chose to say ' yes ' to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party.

Many political insiders remarked that Davis had made several comebacks and that he should not be counted out of the race despite poll numbers that showed over 50 % planning to vote yes on the recall.

The competition was tough, and the talent was somewhat lacking, as some of the players had never played a game of baseball ; and yes, some had never owned a baseball glove or baseball shoes.

He had great endurance, he was very tough and, yes, reliable.

The answer for the analogous question about polygons in 2 dimensions is " yes " and had been known for a long time ; this is the Bolyai – Gerwien theorem.