“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”
William Shakespeare
“Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, / Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.”
Bible
“He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke”
Robert Herrick
“Bulgaria is not a free state. Bulgaria is once again under Turkish yoke.”
Volen Siderov
“His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.”
“Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.”
William Wordsworth
“So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.”