All 8 Uses of
yield
in
Arrowsmith
- It is true that twenty minutes after that, she was sneering at Clif Clawson, at fishing, and at all school-teachers, but to his fury she yielded in tears.†
Chpt 6
- Wasn't there a technique of manners as there was of experimentation…… Gottlieb's fluent benchtechnique versus the clumsy and podgy hands of Ira Hinkley…… Or was all this inquiry a treachery, a yielding to Duer's own affected standard?
Chpt 7yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- He washed his own linen in the bath-tub and, except for occasional fiercely delightful yieldings, he did not smoke.†
Chpt 10 *
- She yielded and for a moment there was nothing in the universe, neither he nor she, neither laboratory nor fathers nor wives nor traditions, but only the intensity of their being together.†
Chpt 21
- He went to the Ice House; he had a drink with a frightened clerk from Derbyshire; he regained the picture of Gottlieb's sunken, demanding eyes; and he swore that he would not yield to a compassion which in the end would make all compassion futile.†
Chpt 34
- Martin closed his flat—their flat—with a cold swift fury, lest he yield to his misery in finding among Leora's possessions a thousand fragments which brought her back: the frock she had bought for Capitola McGurk's dinner, a petrified chocolate she had hidden away to munch illegally by night, a memorandum, "Get almonds for Sandy."†
Chpt 36
- He had yielded to Joyce's training in being quietly instead of noisily disagreeable; and his only comment was "No, I think you're wrong, Clif."
Chpt 39yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Often he meditated on yielding to Joyce so far as to allow her to build a better laboratory for them, and more civilized quarters.
Chpt 40 *yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
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