Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead-footed yokel. |
I must have looked like a real country yokel, certainly I felt one, I felt the heat rising and my cheeks were burning with embarrassment. |
Someone commented on my yokel version, which for ages I have thought was the received pronunciation of the word. |
It is not the forelock-tugging yokel that so many members seem to want to think is still a farm worker. |
It is the militia-man, the yokel, standing facing the captain and gesticulating at him. |
But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a well-digger's posterior. |