All 9 Uses of
yield
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding but resisting, began the second.†
Chpt 4
- Midway, his last resistance yielding, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone.†
Chpt 4
- Reserved about to yield.†
Chpt 5 *
- His brain yielded.†
Chpt 8
- All kissed, yielded: in deep summer fields, tangled pressed grass, in trickling hallways of tenements, along sofas, creaking beds.†
Chpt 8
- All yielding she tossed my hair.†
Chpt 8
- Flesh yielded amply amid rumpled clothes: whites of eyes swooning up.†
Chpt 10
- Do we yield?†
Chpt 15
- He also yielded to none in his admiration of Rossini's Stabat Mater, a work simply abounding in immortal numbers, in which his wife, Madam Marion Tweedy, made a hit, a veritable sensation, he might safely say, greatly adding to her other laureis and putting the others totally in the shade, in the jesuit fathers' church in upper Gardiner street, the sacred edifice being thronged to the doors to hear her with virtuosos, or virtuosi rather.
Chpt 16 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Definitions:
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(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced