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ayes

n. (plural of aye English)

Usage examples of "ayes".

Command unity in front of Ayes was one thing, but once they were out of here and he could get her alone there was going to be hell to pay.

If she could get the Wild Karrde out of range by then "More visitors," Ayes announced.

The ysalamir and portable nutrient framework that Ayes had given her were back near the aft hatchway, secured to the engine access panel.

A lifetime's worth of wealth or power "I may have trouble persuading Ayes to trust me, she warned.

From the Rio Grande to the Okla­homa Panhandle, from the borders of Louisiana to the sands of New Mexico fifteen hundred kilometers away, the state was ablaze with the light of impending battle in twenty million defiant ayes of Texas.

The same bitter war over the sum to be paid was fought over again, and now that the ayes and nays could be called and placed on record, every man was compelled to vote by name on the three millions, and indeed on every paragraph of the bill from the enacting clause straight through.

The bill was put upon its final passage almost without dissent, and the calling of the ayes and nays began.

Then the gavel rapped to command silence while the names were called on the ayes and nays.

When any matter of real interest occasioned a vote, the ayes and noes would be given aloud.

Through this the ayes walk like sheep, the tellers giving them an accelerating poke when they fail to go on with rapidity.

I’d vote with the ayes, too, except that I’m not yet convinced Peter can be relied upon to carry out the mission properly.

It could require the ayes and noes on the motion, and use up thirty minutes on that detail.

You will realise what a happy idea it was to side-track the lawful ayes and noes and substitute a stand-up vote by this fact: that a little later, when a deputation of deputies waited upon the President and asked him if he was actually willing to claim that that measure had been passed, he answered, 'Yes--and unanimously.