Youwarkee

Defoe, partly on Swift; it has more recently been fashionable to hint a sneer at it as "sentimental" because of its presentment of a sort of fantastic and unconventional Amelia (who, it may be remembered, made her appearance in the same year) in the heroine Youwarkee.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

At last a project started, that as there were so many chests on board, Youwarkee should fill some of them and send them through the gulf to take their chance for the lake.

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

After supper, Youwarkee looking very earnestly at me, with tears just glittering in her eyes, broke out in these words -- "What should you have thought, Peter, to have seen me come sailing, drowned, through the cavern, tied to one of your chests?"

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

Youwarkee cannot bear a strong light -- Her husband makes her spectacles, which help her -- A description of them

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

Youwarkee and I having no other company than one another's, we talked together almost from morn to night, in order to learn each other's dialect But how compilable soever she was in all other respects, I could not persuade her to go out with me to fetch water, or to the lake, in the day-time.

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

About three months after we were married, as we called it, Youwarkee told me she believed she was breeding, and I was mightily pleased with it, for though I had had two children before by Patty, yet I had never seen either of them, so that I longed to be a father.

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

-- 'Your father!' replied Youwarkee; 'are you my brother Quangrollart?'

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

I had described my own country vest for lads to Youwarkee, and she formed a tolerable idea of it, but we had no tackle to alter anything with.

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

But what added to my satisfaction was to see Youwarkee so pleased, for she could scarcely contain herself.

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

After a short obeisance, they asked me if I was the glumm Peter, barkett* to Youwarkee.

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732