All 14 Uses of
yield
in
Anna Karenina
- But something drew her towards it, and she could yield to it or resist it at will.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- His own peasants put every hindrance they could in the way of this new arrangement, but it was carried out, and the first year the meadows had yielded a profit almost double.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- His father's immense property, which alone yielded a yearly income of two hundred thousand, was left undivided between the brothers.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- Where the land with serf-labor and good management gave a yield of nine to one, on the half-crop system it yields three to one.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- Where the land with serf-labor and good management gave a yield of nine to one, on the half-crop system it yields three to one.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- This did not interest Levin, but when he had finished, Levin went back to his first position, and, addressing Sviazhsky, and trying to draw him into expressing his serious opinion:— "That the standard of culture is falling, and that with our present relations to the peasants there is no possibility of farming on a rational system to yield a profit—that's perfectly true," said he.
Part 3 (definition 2)yield = produce or give
- Left alone in the room assigned him, lying on a spring mattress that yielded unexpectedly at every movement of his arm or his leg, Levin did not fall asleep for a long while.
Part 3 (definition 2) *yielded = produced or gave
- Imagine, I ought to have said to him, that you have the same system as the old peasant has, that you have found means of making your laborers take an interest in the success of the work, and have found the happy mean in the way of improvements which they will admit, and you will, without exhausting the soil, get twice or three times the yield you got before.
Part 3 (definition 2)yield = production
- Unconsciously yielding to the weakness of Anna—who had surrendered herself up to him utterly, and simply looked to him to decide her fate, ready to submit to anything—he had long ceased to think that their tie might end as he had thought then.
Part 4 (definition 1)yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- Levin yielded with a sinking heart: yes, he drew it to his mouth and kissed it.
Part 5 (definition 1) *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- All these worrying negotiations, this endless going from place to place, and talking with pleasant and excellent people, who quite saw the unpleasantness of the petitioner's position, but were powerless to assist him—all these efforts that yielded no result, led to a feeling of misery in Levin akin to the mortifying helplessness one experiences in dreams when one tries to use physical force.
Part 6 (definition 2)yielded = produced or gave
- The appointment yielded an income of from seven to ten thousand a year, and Oblonsky could fill it without giving up his government position.†
Part 7 (definition 2)
- But for life they yielded nothing, and Levin felt suddenly like a man who has changed his warm fur cloak for a muslin garment, and going for the first time into the frost is immediately convinced, not by reason, but by his whole nature that he is as good as naked, and that he must infallibly perish miserably.
Part 8 (definition 2)yielded = produced
- And to do this, just as it was necessary to cook dinner, it was necessary to keep the mechanism of agriculture at Pokrovskoe going so as to yield an income.†
Part 8 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(2) (yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced