All 28 Uses of
yield
in
Bleak House
- When the house was out of sight, I sat, with my bird-cage in the straw at my feet, forward on the low seat to look out of the high window, watching the frosty trees, that were like beautiful pieces of spar, and the fields all smooth and white with last night's snow, and the sun, so red but yielding so little heat, and the ice, dark like metal where the skaters and sliders had brushed the snow away.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- Guppy" is all the information the card yields.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1) *
- If he were not there when we went in, and I began to hope he would not come and yielded myself for a little while to the interest of the scene, I was certain to encounter his languishing eyes when I least expected it and, from that time, to be quite sure that they were fixed upon me all the evening.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- Hence Sir Leicester yields up his family legs to the family disorder as if he held his name and fortune on that feudal tenure.
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)yields up = surrenders
- He feels that for a Dedlock to be laid upon his back and spasmodically twitched and stabbed in his extremities is a liberty taken somewhere, but he thinks, "We have all yielded to this; it belongs to us; it has for some hundreds of years been understood that we are not to make the vaults in the park interesting on more ignoble terms; and I submit myself to the compromise."
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Is it," says Chadband, glancing over the table, "from bread in various forms, from butter which is churned from the milk which is yielded unto us by the cow, from the eggs which are laid by the fowl, from ham, from tongue, from sausage, and from such like?†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- Mr. Guppy yielding his assent to this proposal, Jo is requested to follow into the drawing-room doorway, where Mr. Guppy takes him in hand as a witness, patting him into this shape, that shape, and the other shape like a butterman dealing with so much butter, and worrying him according to the best models.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- Indeed there may be generally observed in him an unbending, unyielding, brass-bound air, as if he were himself the bassoon of the human orchestra.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- The trooper yielding to this invitation, he and Mr. Bagnet, not to embarrass the domestic preparations, go forth to take a turn up and down the little street, which they promenade with measured tread and folded arms, as if it were a rampart.
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- On this fact being clearly ascertained, we all yielded to the painful belief that delirium had come upon him in the night and that, allured by some imaginary object or pursued by some imaginary horror, he had strayed away in that worse than helpless state; all of us, that is to say, but Mr. Skimpole, who repeatedly suggested, in his usual easy light style, that it had occurred to our young friend that he was not a safe inmate, having a bad kind of fever upon him, and that he had with…
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- The light vivacious tone of fashionable life which is usually assumed by Mr. Weevle sits so ill upon him to-night that he abandons that and his whiskers together, and after looking over his shoulder, appears to yield himself up a prey to the horrors again.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- When we had finished and had our little dessert before us, embellished by the hands of my dear, who would yield the superintendence of everything prepared for me to no one, Miss Flite was so very chatty and happy that I thought I would lead her to her own history, as she was always pleased to talk about herself.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- Though often when she was asleep and all was quiet, the remembrance of my mother kept me waking and made the night sorrowful, I did not yield to it at another time; and Ada found me what I used to be—except, of course, in that particular of which I have said enough and which I have no intention of mentioning any more just now, if I can help it.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 2)
- Our guest was in such spirits on the way home that I could do nothing but listen to him and wonder at him; nor was I alone in this, for Ada yielded to the same fascination.
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- They are good enough to maintain a number of delightful objects for the admiration and pleasure of us poor men; and not to reap all the admiration and pleasure that they yield is to be ungrateful to our benefactors.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 1)
- It greatly affected me to see him so, but I hoped he might become more yielding, and I remained silent.
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- Though the belief she of old reposed in herself as one able to reserve whatsoever she would under her mantle of pride is beaten down, though she has no assurance that what she is to those around her she will remain another day, it is not in her nature when envious eyes are looking on to yield or to droop.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- Further conversation is prevented, for the time, by the necessity under which Mr. Bagnet finds himself of directing the whole force of his mind to the dinner, which is a little endangered by the dry humour of the fowls in not yielding any gravy, and also by the made gravy acquiring no flavour and turning out of a flaxen complexion.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)
- Her friendly indignation had an exemplary effect upon her husband, who shook his head at the trooper several times as a silent recommendation to him to yield.
Chpt 52-54 (definition 2)yield = give in, give way, or give up
- …her son George, her own dear recovered boy, her joy and pride, the light of her eyes, the happy close of her life, and every fond name she can think of, that he must be governed by the best advice obtainable by money and influence, that he must yield up his case to the greatest lawyers that can be got, that he must act in this serious plight as he shall be advised to act and must not be self-willed, however right, but must promise to think only of his poor old mother's anxiety and…†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- As he evidently has a rooted feeling on this point, and as the depth of it is recognized in Mrs. Bagnet's face, his mother yields her implicit assent to what he asks.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- Yielding to my companion's better sense, however, I remained where I was.
Chpt 55-57 (definition 2) *yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- Yielding, therefore, the chair at the bedside to the quaint old housekeeper, Volumnia sits at a table a little removed, sympathetically sighing.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 1)
- When Richard had not yielded himself to the unhappy influence which now darkened his life.
Chpt 58-60 (definition 2)yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Its influence over me is still tremenjous, and yielding to it, I am willing to overlook the circumstances over which none of us have had any control and to renew those proposals to Miss Summerson which I had the honour to make at a former period.
Chpt 64-65 (definition 2)yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- My husband had been a guardian angel to him and Ada, and he blessed us both and wished us all the joy that life could yield us.†
Chpt 64-65 (definition 1)
- With so much of itself abandoned to darkness and vacancy; with so little change under the summer shining or the wintry lowering; so sombre and motionless always—no flag flying now by day, no rows of lights sparkling by night; with no family to come and go, no visitors to be the souls of pale cold shapes of rooms, no stir of life about it—passion and pride, even to the stranger's eye, have died away from the place in Lincolnshire and yielded it to dull repose.†
Chpt 66-67 (definition 1)
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