All 7 Uses of
yield
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- Each time they climbed down they found the hollow filled with thick bushes and matted undergrowth, which somehow would not yield to the left, but only gave way when they turned to the right; and they had to go some distance along the bottom before they could find a way up the further bank.
Chpt 1.6yield = give way (move)
- He sat up, and felt the soft pillows yield to his hands, and he lay down again relieved.
Chpt 1.7yield = give way
- At a second blow the door yielded and fell back, with timbers burst and lock broken.
Chpt 1.11yielded = gave way (moved)
- He did not forget the Barrow, nor the message of Gandalf; but something seemed to be compelling him to disregard all warnings, and he longed to yield. [to the temptation to put on the Ring]
Chpt 1.11yield = give in (surrender)
- We fear that he may yield.
Chpt 2.2 *
- Yet at last, as his shadow grew, Saruman yielded, and the Council put forth its strength and drove the evil out of Mirkwood and that was in the very year of the finding of this Ring: a strange chance, if chance it was.
Chpt 2.2yielded = gave way (was pushed back)
- Frodo was just yielding to the temptation to lie down again when a dark shape, hardly visible, floated close to one of the moored boats.
Chpt 2.9yielding = giving in (surrendering)
Definition:
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(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up