All 17 Uses of
yield
in
Wuthering Heights
- I bowed and returned the pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)yield = provide or give
- He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely; and there was no prevailing on him to take a step in the way of moving upward, when he found he must, necessarily, sink beneath his former level.
Chpt 8 (definition 2)yielded = gave up
- He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely; and there was no prevailing on him to take a step in the way of moving upward, when he found he must, necessarily, sink beneath his former level.
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- There were no mutual concessions: one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?
Chpt 10 (definition 2)yielded = gave in
- Even you, Nelly, if we have a dispute sometimes, you back Isabella at once; and I yield like a foolish mother: I call her a darling, and flatter her into a good temper.
Chpt 10 (definition 2) *yield = give in
- 'Try for yourself, if that be your spirit: I have done, and yield the argument to your saucy insolence.'
Chpt 10 (definition 2)yield = give up
- I did not want him to yield, though I could not help being afraid in my heart.
Chpt 11 (definition 2)yield = give in
- ...a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances.
Chpt 18 (definition 1) *yield = produce
- Edgar Linton was silent a minute; an expression of exceeding sorrow overcast his features: he would have pitied the child on his own account; but, recalling Isabella's hopes and fears, and anxious wishes for her son, and her commendations of him to his care, he grieved bitterly at the prospect of yielding him up, and searched in his heart how it might be avoided.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)yielding = giving
- But the return was no such easy matter: the stones were smooth and neatly cemented, and the rose-bushes and black-berry stragglers could yield no assistance in re-ascending.
Chpt 22 (definition 1)yield = provide
- I couldn't bear to witness her sorrow: to see her pale, dejected countenance, and heavy eyes: and I yielded, in the faint hope that Linton himself might prove, by his reception of us, how little of the tale was founded on fact.
Chpt 22 (definition 2)yielded = gave in
- Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his assent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride to join her cousin.
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult.
Chpt 26 (definition 2)yielded = given way
- Hareton says he wakes and shrieks in the night by the hour together, and calls you to protect him from me; and, whether you like your precious mate, or not, you must come: he's your concern now; I yield all my interest in him to you.'
Chpt 29 (definition 2)yield = give up
- I had neither to climb the gate nor to knock — it yielded to my hand.
Chpt 32 (definition 2)yielded = gave way (moved)
- He had an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing rather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed sufficient sustenance for him.
Chpt 34 (definition 2)yielding = giving in
- And then I set myself to reflect how I had tended him in infancy, and watched him grow to youth, and followed him almost through his whole course; and what absurd nonsense it was to yield to that sense of horror.
Chpt 34 (definition 2)yield = give in
Definitions:
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(1) (yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2) (yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up