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Quotes About Yawn

and just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort.
~ James Herriot
Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.
~ Jack O'Neill
Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.
~ Alexander Pope
I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.
~ Jeb Dickerson
Apparently unaffected, she rose. Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going. She feigned a yawn. You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. --
~ Kresley Cole
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~ Jeffrey Brown
To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it— Block it up With Other—and 'twill yawn the more— You cannot solder an Abyss With Air.
~ Emily Dickinson
Think not less of me in my omniscience, said Brahma, stifling a yawn with his scepter, if I admit to having, for the moment, forgotten these figures.
~ Roger Zelazny
She yawned gracefully in my face.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him asunder. Read and improve your mind, my son, answered Archie, peering solemnly over the paper behind which he had been dozing.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Curled up on one of her pillows a gray fluff of kitten yawned, showing its pink tongue, tucked its head under again, and went back to sleep.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
~ William Shakespeare
Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Matt wanted to tell the old man that he had never been on a horse before, much less a mule. A skateboard, Mr. Hornbee. That's the last thing I rode on , Matt was thinking as he watched Blackjack open his mouth in a big-toothed yawn.
~ Elvira Woodruff
as i said her nostrils flared like a white lion, i blinked and she was gone. what one imagines. i dream moldy words. at times she yawned, as i said that, and her nostrils flared most beautifully.
~ Scott C. Holstad
The yawn of a girl can be so beautiful it makes you cringe.
~ Markus Zusak
You couldn't catch a yawn from someone you didn't like.
~ Martin Amis
The sound of a huge yawn came close to Jaypaw's ear, and Cloudtail's scent wafted over him. "Why don't you get moving?" he mumbled. "Then every cat can get a bit more sleep." "No chance." Dustpelt spoke sharply nearby. "You're coming with me and Sandstorm on the dawn patrol." "Mouse dung!" Cloudtail muttered.
~ Erin Hunter
We have come to a stream of blood. That it will lead us to a river of the same stuff I have no doubt. And, further along, to an ocean. In this world the graves yawn and none of the dead rest easy.
~ Stephen King
Why I Write for Children," he explained the appeal. "Children read books, not reviews," he wrote. "They don't give a hoot about the critics." And: "When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority." Best of all—and to the relief of authors everywhere—children "don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least.
~ Joseph O'Connor
Did you really need to yawn like that, Graypaw? Oh, I see, it's because it's the dawn patrol, and you're tired.
~ Erin Hunter
He yawned again, this time very loudly, and lazily opened his eyes. "I'm sorry I woke you up," she said quickly. "Was I sleeping?" She nodded. "So there really is a God," he muttered.
~ Julia Quinn