All 6 Uses of
yield
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Chpt 2yield = give in, give way, or give up
- We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
Chpt 2
- He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.†
Chpt 2
- His unreal and selfish love would yield to some higher influence, would be transformed into some nobler passion, and the portrait that Basil Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would be to him what holiness is to some, and conscience to others, and the fear of God to us all.†
Chpt 8
- Was it to alter now with every mood to which he yielded?
Chpt 8 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- The windows yielded easily; their bolts were old.†
Chpt 20 *
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