I began to yawn uncontrollably around Kempton Park, which apparently is what dogs also do when anxious they yawn uncontrollably.

I shall remain faithful until the big yawn do us part.

'Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.

BERLIN Germany s current parliamentary election campaign looks like a front running contender for the title of the most boring in the history of the Federal Republic. The predominant response among commentators to the sole television debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger, Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, held two weeks before the election, was a collective yawn all the more remarkable considering the historical events that overshadow this election.