Crossword-Solution: YERKS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs.

What will she say in the morning?" "What can she say, when all is come and gone, but, perchance, that thou wert rash and hot-headed? That will do you no harm: but an hour ago she swore to me that you were getting old--and sighed too, as if she believed her words." "Old, did she say? Ho, mistress, I will show you my infirmities! A fig for her scruples! the hey-day blood yerks yet, Master Captain.

Well, the thought that you have had all this to go through, and such a large sum of money to pay, yerks me, and goes against the grain.

PAGE Dedication 5 Author's Advertisement 7 The Legend of Saint Nicholas 13 The Little Dutch Sentinel of the Manhadoes 33 Cobus Yerks 73 A Strange Bird in Nieuw-Amsterdam 89 Claas Schlaschenschlinger 105 The Revenge of Saint Nicholas 128 The Origin of the Bakers' Dozen 148 The Ghost 167 The Nymph of the Mountain 192 The Ride of Saint Nicholas on Newyear's Eve 206 TO THE SOCIETIES OF SAINT NICHOLAS IN THE NEW NETHERLANDS, COMMONLY CALLED NEW-YORK.

Little Cobus Yerks—his name was Jacob, but being a Dutchman, if not a double Dutchman, it was rendered in English Cobus—little Cobus, I say, lived on the banks of Sawmill River, where it winds close under the brow of the Raven Rock, an enormous precipice jutting out of the side of the famous Buttermilk Hill, of which the reader has doubtless often heard.