Sentence examples for yon from inspiring English sources
The word "yon" is usable in written English, though it is somewhat archaic
It is typically used to refer to something at a distance, often in a poetic or literary context. Example: "Look at yon mountain, standing tall against the sky."
Such a mighty progress would have scattered smaller bodies hither and yon; things that started off close together could easily have ended up as far apart as Ceres and Pluto today.As it happens, a few months before New Horizons flashes past Pluto, a much slower spacecraft called Dawn will slip sedately into orbit around Ceres and begin a long programme of observations.
So spoke the Fairy in "Queen Mab":There's not one atom of yon earth But once was living man; Not the minutest drop of rain That hangeth in its thinnest cloud, But flowed in human veins… Thou canst not find one spot Whereon no city stood.Ruins of this sort were everywhere in Shelley.
He was once described as "yon wee pixie" by a Scottish Tory MP, and rather liked it, as well as all the unkind references to strutting cock-bantams and garden gnomes.
The great bazaars of Baghdad and Istanbul were full of fortune-seekers from hither and yon.
In Austria, police said 37 people were injured - seven seriously - when two vans packed with migrants collided near the Hungarian border yon Monday.
The three American friends, two of them US servicemen, who tackled him, recalled their encounter with Khazzani at length in a press conference yon Sunday.
And thus he went ceaselessly hither and yon about in the world".
Later Kublai Khan appointed the lama 'Phags-pa as his "imperial preceptor" (dishi), and the politico-religious relationship between Tibet and the Mongol empire is stated as a personal bond between the emperor as patron and the lama as priest (yon-mchod).
The fourth Dalai Lama, Yon-tan-rgya-mtsho (1589 1617), was a great-grandson of Altan Khan and the only non-Tibetan Dalai Lama.
November 22, 1809 Vienna, Austria March 30 , 1873Saint-Yon, France Benedict Augustin Morel, (born Nov. 22, 1809, Vienna died March 30 , 1873 Saint-Yon, Fr)., Austrian-born French psychologist who introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty.
A number of smaller towns such as Cholet, Laval, and La Roche-sur-Yon have also become key industrial centres.
