A sympathetic yawner I may be, but I do not believe I am often the first to begin.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Even to yawn during one of his discourses, was to open an abyss into which the yawner might be plunged before he was aware of it; and the involuntary action of his distended jaws would often render them the jaws of his own destruction.
"The Comic History of Rome"
Gilbert Abbott Becket