All 6 Uses of
yield
in
The Mill on the Floss
- He could venture now to be persuasive and urgent, and his father yielded with more readiness than he had calculated on.†
Chpt 6.8
- This yielding to the idea of Stephen's suffering was more fatal than the other yielding, because it was less distinguishable from that sense of others' claims which was the moral basis of her resistance.†
Chpt 6.13
- This yielding to the idea of Stephen's suffering was more fatal than the other yielding, because it was less distinguishable from that sense of others' claims which was the moral basis of her resistance.†
Chpt 6.13
- All yielding is attended with a less vivid consciousness than resistance; it is the partial sleep of thought; it is the submergence of our own personality by another.†
Chpt 6.13 *
- But she raised her eyes and met his with a glance that was filled with the anguish of regret, not with yielding.†
Chpt 6.14 *
- Dr. Kenn could not be contradicted; he was listened to in silence; but when he left the room, a comparison of opinions among his hearers yielded much the same result as before.†
Chpt 7.4
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