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  • I want a high-yield investment.
    yield = production (in this case, creation of more income)
  • It's a tradeoff. Bonds that yield more interest have more risk.
    yield = produce
  • A warmer climate has reduced crop yields in the area.
    yields = production
  • The experiment yielded data that raised a new set of questions.
    yielded = produced
  • I don't know why I asked her to wait, what benefit I thought time would yield.   (source)
    yield = produce
  • Her pockets yielded only ordinary feathers, shells, and seedpods, so she hurried back to the shack and stood in front of her feather-wall, window-shopping.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • "A diamond must be cut many times before it yields even a tiny jewel," I said.   (source)
    yields = gives
  • Roy poked the tip of the dead branch through the loose dirt, but it yielded no clues.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • Louie caught a few fish, once parlaying a tiny one, thrown into the raft by a whitecap, into bait that yielded a comparatively fat pilot fish.   (source)
  • It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.   (source)
    yield = produce
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  • After countless tries, the net yielded two flopping silvery fish.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • The idea, it seemed, was to stop hunting for the thing entirely and let the house yield up its secret on its own.   (source)
    yield up = give
  • I didn't think of myself as a superstitious or conspiratorial person, the kind who'd obsess over a coincidence until it yielded meaning.   (source)
    yielded = gave
  • Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.   (source)
    yield = produce
  • I went through a range of ridiculous musings that yielded nothing from Charlie.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • Professor Severus Snape, master of this school, commands you to yield the information you conceal!   (source)
    yield = give
  • As you can imagine, a twenty percent yield is insufficient for our work.   (source)
    yield = amount produced
  • A little insurance for the yield, and the pleasure of driving that shiny red piece of machinery along the fencerow next to Cabot Street Road.   (source)
    yield = production
  • When the book yielded nothing, she returned to the summoning spell.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • The following week the knot-hole yielded a tarnished medal.   (source)
  • Building an oil rig to yield a single barrel of oil was a losing endeavor.   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • I don't know if it still exists, but I used to go there whenever official sources didn't yield the information I needed.   (source)
    yield = provide
  • Can I get a better yield?   (source)
    yield = amount produced
  • My sister told herself that she was inside a series of rooms and spaces that, gone through methodically, might yield what she needed, provide her the trophy she could take home to our father, earning her freedom from me that way.   (source)
    yield = provide
  • The harder you work a rice field, the more it yields.   (source)
    yields = produces
  • He vows to you that he will yield no foot of Tully land without first watering it with Lannister blood.   (source)
    yield = give
  • Something, something …. And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • As Hayflick wrote to me in an email: "If we were to grow HeLa for just 50 population doublings it would yield 50 million metric tons if all the cells were saved."   (source)
    yield = produce
  • The earth has many more horrors to yield up.   (source)
    yield up = produce or show
  • Magic can yield unexpected results when the ancient words are combined in new ways.   (source)
    yield = produce
  • A jungle yields no abundance to feed the multitudes, and supports no leisure class.   (source)
    yields = gives
  • And this spot has been good to them, they plant cassava fields that yield huge crops.   (source)
    yield = produce
  • From a yield of 4.   (source)
    yield = production
  • All day long we had been wondering precisely who he was, but our inquiries had yielded little save that the chief was a true veteran of the teams who had seen combat in overseas deployment four times, including the Gulf War.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • That's because nowhere in their accounting system are they able to measure how a ten-dollar salt and pepper shaker might yield $100,000.   (source)
    yield = produce
  • Snow fell that morning outside the courthouse windows, four tall, narrow arches of leaded glass that yielded a great quantity of weak December light.   (source)
    yielded = gave or produced
  • One leg had yielded itself to the loose dirt.   (source)
    yielded = given
  • First they trot the length of Main Street, stopping to scrutinize the engine grilles of parked automobiles, particularly those stationed in front of the two hotels, the Windsor and Warren, for these cars, usually the property of travelers from afar, often yield what the bony, methodical creatures are hunting: slaughtered birds-crows, chickadees, and sparrows foolhardy enough to have flown into the path of oncoming motorists.   (source)
    yield = provide
  • One evening a bike messenger arrived at my office with a parcel that yielded a real Philadelphia soft pretzel, complete with spicy mustard, which Larry had personally imported just for me from a trip back east.   (source)
    yielded = gave or produced
  • His search yielded zippo, which only infuriated him further, since he realized that it meant Thigh-bolt had lied to his face and Clayton hadn't picked up on it.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • At any moment I was ready to make peace — yes and to spare her life too, if only she would yield me the throne.   (source)
    yield = give
  • Raleigh's interview with the groom's parents had yielded nothing eventful.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • I was just about to repeat the endeavor with a yellow jawbreaker-the yield of paint was four times as much as a Skittle—when Shay's priest walked up to my cell door in his flak jacket.   (source)
    yield = production
  • So 3,060 grams would yield a cut value of about 600,000 kronor.   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • Aren't cattle crossbred to get hardiness, or milk-yield, or meat?   (source)
    yield = amount produced
  • Deo's family's herd was numerous but didn't yield a great deal of milk, just enough to feed them all and to make butter, with some left over to give away to impoverished neighbors.   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • Mike's "head" works faster; he answered, "The concussion of a hundred-tonne mass on Terra approaches the yield of a two-kilotonne atomic bomb."   (source)
    yield = production
  • Leaning against an upright at the entrance, I strain to make the far-off echo yield A cue to the events that may come in my day.   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • Those two devotions need not necessarily yield an unexciting life, but my life has been determinedly unexciting; my life is a reading list.†   (source)
  • Briony supposed she should get her cousin home, but she was reluctant to break this closeness for the moment—she had her arms around the older girl's shoulders and she seemed to yield now to Briony's touch.†   (source)
    yield = give
  • The only way to make sure your plants produce the same amount of corn -- that they have the same yield as the original hybrid -- is to buy new seed every year from a seed company.†   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • The Black City to the north lay steeped in smoke and garbage, but here in the White City of the fair visitors found clean public bathrooms, pure water, an ambulance service, electric streetlights, and a sewage-processing system that yielded acres of manure for farmers.†   (source)
    yielded = gave or produced
  • They yield and then return, then with a sigh yield and return again, restless from forces that are not part of their nature.†   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • You don't plant bad potatoes if there are good seed potatoes available, and you don't waste time cutting wheat that yields no grain.†   (source)
    yields = produces or gives
  • Yet I would not yield as I stared unblinkingly into his eyes.†   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • The windows yield a strong broad desert and enormous sky.†   (source)
  • They sometimes torture frail data until it yields the demanded "proof" of success.†   (source)
    yields = gives or produces
  • There's no way it's as small a yield as with Hiroshima.†   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • Close assessment of her violet-blue eyes yields no definitive answers, though her pupils do look dilated.†   (source)
    yields = produces or gives
  • Haven't they heard an exhausted well yields no water?†   (source)
  • But half an hour of Kara's prying and another ten minutes of Tom beating his head against a metaphorical wall yielded nothing.†   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • It did not, though Jake was not ready to yield an inch.†   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • Where once the yield had been six tons on the same acreage, it was now thirty, to his immense delight.†   (source)
    yield = production
  • Rationally, I knew my lungs must still be intact, yet I gasped for air and my head spun like my efforts yielded me nothing.†   (source)
    yielded = produced or gave
  • We're not there yet, but we're hopeful that some of Sir Alistair's intelligence will yield another prize.†   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • Alessandro examined the books as if they were witnesses, and despite having to turn pages back and forth almost continuously to bring various incidents into alignment, he employed this technique to considerable advantage, for the compilation of accounts seemed to yield a product rather than a sum.†   (source)
  • Mutual financial obligations that don't yield an equal benefit disturb the tranquility of nations.†   (source)
  • The fury and commotion would yield nothing.†   (source)
    yield = give
  • In the Southfarthing the vines were laden, and the yield of 'leaf' was astonishing; and everywhere there was so much corn that at Harvest every barn was stuffed.†   (source)
    yield = production
  • "Not even were you to yield-" and he bit it off and cursed.†   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods.   (source)
    yield = produce
  • BERENGER throws himself against the back wall, which yields; the street is visible in the background; he flees, shouting:] Rhinoceros!†   (source)
    yields = gives or produces
  • "Those can only come our way when the yield is rich," I said.†   (source)
    yield = production
  • And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals.   (source)
    yield = produce
  • The examination of the luggage of the big Italian and of the valet yielded no result.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • The trouser pockets yielded nothing except a candle end, a jackknife, a plug of tobacco and a bit of twine.   (source)
  • He asked the veterinarian about the value of different breeds of stock; he inquired of Lyman Cass whether or not Einar Gyseldson really had had a yield of forty bushels of wheat to the acre.   (source)
    yield = production
  • And in this pillage of the loaded shelves, he found himself wedged firmly into the grotesque pattern of Protestant fiction which yields the rewards of Dionysus to the loyal disciples of John Calvin, panting and praying in a breath, guarding the plumtree with the altar fires, outdoing the pagan harlot with the sanctified hussy.   (source)
    yields = gives or produces
  • What belongs to you is invested quite nicely and will yield a secure return.   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • I had been told that Frome was poor, and that the saw-mill and the arid acres of his farm yielded scarcely enough to keep his household through the winter; but I had not supposed him to be in such want as Harmon's words implied, and I expressed my wonder.   (source)
    yielded = produced
  • I learned nothing fresh except that already in one week the examination of the Martian mechanisms had yielded astonishing results.   (source)
  • The men who sat nearest considerately turned their faces towards the other end of the field, some of them beginning to smoke; one, with absent-minded fondness, regretfully stroking the jar that would no longer yield a stream.   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  •   Yet shame I not to bear an o'er-full heart,
      Nor blush to turn behind my tearful eyes;
      'Tis from no stranger land I now must part,
      'Tis to no strangers left I yield these sighs.   (source)
    yield = give
  • Left alone in the room assigned him, lying on a spring mattress that yielded unexpectedly at every movement of his arm or his leg, Levin did not fall asleep for a long while.   (source)
    yielded = produced or gave
  • "To be sure," said I; "and why should not these waters yield to us fishes of unknown species?"   (source)
    yield = produce
  • I cannot say that he was never again misled by his hopefulness: the yield of crops or the profits of a cattle sale usually fell below his estimate; and he was always prone to believe that he could make money by the purchase of a horse which turned out badly—though this, Mary observed, was of course the fault of the horse, not of Fred's judgment.   (source)
    yield = production
  • He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure.   (source)
    yield = give
  • How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market.   (source)
    yield = provide or give
  • One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.   (source)
    yield = produce
  • ...a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances.   (source)
  • It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.   (source)
  • Our age yields no great and perfect persons.   (source)
    yields = produces or gives
  • I thank you for this advice, Quartermaster, which is the more acceptable as it costs nothing; but I do not think it belongs to my gifts to yield a place like this while food and water last.   (source)
    yield = produce or give
  • But in the Northern States, especially in New England, there are a certain number of whites, who agree, for wages, to yield a temporary obedience to the will of their fellow-citizens.   (source)
  • "Say to the Grand Master," replied Rebecca, "that I maintain my innocence, and do not yield me as justly condemned, lest I become guilty of mine own blood."   (source)
    yield = give
  • How Sir Marhaus fought with the duke and his four sons and made them to yield them.   (source)
  • One seated, yielding up her throat to the kind hands of one of the two kneeling before her.†   (source)
  • Instead he stood in front of her empty desk in the evening, after everyone had gone home, and touched her things — her typewriter, her scissors, her pencil cup, her blotter — as if trying to coax them into yielding up what somewhere in their atoms they had to know.†   (source)
  • There had been nothing to eat except milk since breakfast, for the yams were exhausted and Pork's snares and fishlines had yielded nothing.   (source)
    yielded = produced
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  • I've been good about my diet for a month, but last night I yielded to temptation and had too much ice cream.
    yielded = gave in
  • When a mountain road narrows to one lane, it is polite and efficient for the car driving down hill to yield to the car going up hill.
    yield = give way
  • A yield sign means you do not have the right-of-way if other cars are also approaching the intersection.
  • After the scandal, she yielded to public pressure and resigned her position.
    yielded = gave in
  • If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind.   (source)
    yielded = give in (surrender)
  • Kya was rigid at first, not accustomed to yielding to hugs, but this didn't discourage Mabel, and finally Kya went limp and slumped against the comfort of those pillows.   (source)
    yielding = giving in (surrendering)
  • Officials waved at Casey, who tried to yield, but Bright and Louie came to him before he could get out of the way.   (source)
    yield = give way
  • It was slippery, like glass, but soft and yielding when you pushed on it.   (source)
    yielding = easily moved (giving way)
  • So little of the world did not yield to his sounding. In the end, I think the fact that I did not was his favorite thing about me.   (source)
    yield = give in
  • I ran the ropes around the tarpaulin hooks on the opposite side of the bow; every time a rope yielded a little, I secured my gain before the rope slipped back.   (source)
    yielded = gave way (moved)
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  • "To ensure that no underage student yields to temptation," said Dumbledore, "I will be drawing an Age Line around the Goblet of Fire once it has been placed in the entrance hall."   (source)
    yields = gives in
  • Any reluctance to answering personal or embarrassing questions always yielded to the lure of appearing on TV.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • Then, as he teetered on the brink of unconsciousness, Langdon heard a distant yielding …. a ripple spidering outward through the glass.   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • It cracked loudly as it yielded to her unblemished incisors, and there was revealed the white edge of the sugar shell, and the dark chocolate beneath it.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • The old man, Uchendu, saw clearly that Okonkwo had yielded to despair and he was greatly troubled.   (source)
    yielded = given in
  • The new, more yielding environment allowed the carbon fibers to separate.   (source)
    yielding = easily moved (giving way)
  • "He yielded," he echoed.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air.   (source)
    yielded = gave way
  • For a split second we were both frozen, both straining, neither yielding.   (source)
    yielding = giving in
  • I'm afraid of myself, afraid my longing is making me yield too soon.   (source)
    yield = give in
  • No one invested in Michael Oher, and so he yielded no visible returns.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • We were supposed to place the branches at the foot of the king as a sign of peace toward our leader and our willingness to yield to the law.   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • You must yield to me!   (source)
    yield = give in (or give what is asked)
  • "That's why y' asked him to yield," Stilgar said.   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • Your task as you deliberate together on these proceedings is to ensure that you do nothing to yield to a universe in which things go awry by happenstance.   (source)
  • We fear that he may yield.   (source)
    yield = give in (surrender)
  • I took her quickly from Armand, and felt her soft limbs against me as if we were both in. the coffin, yielding to that paralytic sleep.   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • 'All right,' Yossarian yielded with a sigh, remembering his mission.   (source)
    yielded = gave in (agreed to what was asked)
  • Almost a century and a half ago, Senator Stephen Douglas told Abraham Lincoln, who had just defeated him for the presidency, "Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism."   (source)
    yield = give in
  • During evening session Prof reported on trip and then yielded to me—Committee Chairman Korsakov consenting—so that I could report what "five-year plan" meant and how Authority had tried to bribe me.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • As a result, his feeling, still pulsing and warm, was gradually eliminated from his poems, and romantic morbidity yielded to a broad and serene vision that lifted the particular to the level of the universal and familiar.   (source)
  • And I know that is a story my mother wouldn't have yielded to Dan.†   (source)
  • But the board did not yield.†   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • Hours later, a faint blue tinge yields to the soft pastels of dawn, and soon enough sun is streaming in, the stop-start rhythm of the train making it all feel like still photography, thousands of images that taken together create a scene in motion.†   (source)
    yields = gives in, gives way, or gives up
  • I presume anyone running a race has moments of half despair, along toward the end; but they must never be yielded to.†   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • Food's borders yielded to the wider world.†   (source)
  • I could handle lengthy operations because while training under Dr. Long, I had learned his philosophy and techniques, which included how to keep going, hour after tedious hour, without yielding to fatigue.†   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • If you've ever seen these things, you'll know that they're something like a huge fungus—smooth and very strong, but pad-like and yielding too.†   (source)
  • Thus the Sky made Eugenides immortal and yielded to Hephestia the power of his thunderbolts.†   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • "Daddy's sick" soon yielded to "Daddy's gone," as Duke succumbed to diabetes at the age of thirty-five.†   (source)
  • Even when the farmers in our group sat around him, shielding him from our view and comforting him in low whispers, he did not yield.†   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • But the hill was so quiet and the quiet so comforting that she yielded fully to its embrace.†   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • I believe I can get around the obstacles in my life not by fighting them, but by yielding to them and pushing off from them.†   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • More Americans rushed forward, many of them Pennsylvania militia with little or no training, who refused to yield, as Washington, Greene, and Cadwalader rode among them to lead the way.†   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • He nearly yielded to the temptation to tell her that he knew all about the missing Potentials, that she was not nearly as clever as she liked to appear.†   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • Her mouth was soft, yielding.†   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • In the distance, an arch in the cliffs yields to the black sands of the plains.†   (source)
    yields = gives in, gives way, or gives up
  • But lately these images had yielded to a new one-a man.†   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • The trigger button yielded to a slight increase in pressure.†   (source)
  • I have taken the tenor of these people and they are determined against yielding.†   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • The earth yielded to his feet as it did to other Red men, as it hadn't done for him in so many years; the grass rose up stronger where he stepped; the bushes parted for him, the leaves softened and yielded as he ran among the trees; and now he did cry out, shouted, sang, caring not at all who heard him.†   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • Early the next morning, we yielded to the call and headed toward higherground.†   (source)
  • In theory, it all seemed to dovetail so beautifully that they yielded to the temptation and incorporated too much.†   (source)
  • One evening I yielded to an evil impulse to show her how little Latin she knew.†   (source)
  • It was filled with some kind of heavy, sand-like stuff which yielded wherever you touched it.   (source)
    yielded = gave way (was pushed back)
  • She looked up from her mending into the silent light and shadow, and the kind of long and profound sighing of the heart flowed out of her which, excepting music, was her only way of yielding to sadness.†   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • For his voice from the past on behalf of Union was one of the deciding factors that prevented Missouri from yielding to all the desperate efforts to drive her into secession along with her sister slave states.†   (source)
  • We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy.   (source)
    yielded = given up
  • There were three married couples and Jordan's escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo, and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.   (source)
    yield = give in (surrender)
  • Mrs. Meade was disobedient for the first time in her married life and flatly refused to yield to the doctor's command that she take the train to safety.   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than this morning.   (source)
    yielded = gave in
  • Often he meditated on yielding to Joyce so far as to allow her to build a better laboratory for them, and more civilized quarters.   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • Anne sighed and yielded.   (source)
    yielded = gave in (agreed to what was suggested)
  • "Awrigh'!" he yielded.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • The Italian would not yield, but brandished the Word like a sword. triumphed with it.   (source)
    yield = give up, give in, or give way
  • I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • In just the same way, at moments, she almost yielded to the temptation to denounce Mrs Basil to her husband or Maisie Maidan to hers.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • Misfortune has broken my once haughty spirit; I yield, I submit; 'tis my fate.   (source)
    yield = give up
  • It was something to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead, and propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore.   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • He put it that way that she might not think he had yielded to an impulse of which his head would disapprove.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • Alyosha had given his opinion at the time, blushing, and angry with himself for having yielded to his brother's entreaties and put such "foolish" ideas into words.   (source)
  • Shall we yield to force?   (source)
    yield = give in (surrender)
  • I know now 1180 My Hrothulf the gladsome, that he this young man Will hold in all honour if thou now before him, O friend of the Scyldings, shall fare from the world; I ween that good-will yet this man will be yielding To our offspring that after us be, if he mind him Of all that which we two, for good-will and for worship, Unto him erst a child yet have framed of kindness.   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • Without waiting for him to ask, she told him that her father had come back in exactly the same state of mind—that he had not yielded an inch.   (source)
    yielded = given in, given way, or given up
  • Tempted by a dream of happiness, he had yielded himself with deliberate choice, as he had never done before, to what he knew was deadly sin.   (source)
    yielded = given up
  • Rosamond had that morning entreated him to urge this step on Lydgate; and it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.   (source)
    yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
  • "Mother by adoption," retorted Estella, never departing from the easy grace of her attitude, never raising her voice as the other did, never yielding either to anger or tenderness,—"mother by adoption, I have said that I owe everything to you."   (source)
    yielding = giving in
  • Woe to him who yields himself to the unstable heart of woman!   (source)
    yields = gives in (surrenders)
  • The window yielded.   (source)
    yielded = gave way (moved)
  • In listening, I sobbed convulsively; for I could repress what I endured no longer; I was obliged to yield, and I was shaken from head to foot with acute distress.   (source)
    yield = give in
  • Even you, Nelly, if we have a dispute sometimes, you back Isabella at once; and I yield like a foolish mother: I call her a darling, and flatter her into a good temper.   (source)
  • "O, you little witch!" says George, yielding, as, in such circumstances, man always must.   (source)
    yielding = giving in (doing what was asked)
  • Minerva was obliged to yield, and, of course, disliked her from that day.   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • I fear that he will become an idler unless we yield the point and permit him to enter on the profession which he has selected.   (source)
    yield = give up
  • To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.   (source)
    yield = give in (accept)
  • When they are obliged to yield to the former, they strive at least to escape from the latter.   (source)
    yield = give in, give way, or give up
  • "I will not yield," replied De Bracy faintly, "to an unknown conqueror."   (source)
  • And then he yielded him unto Sir Tristram.   (source)
    yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
  • I think maybe I am Jane with my very own Mr. Rochester, and maybe it'll be okay for us to go to Missouri where the rules are looser and yield to the impulse in a drive-in chapel.†   (source)
  • He presented himself unannounced in the office of Uncle Leo XII, President of the Board of Directors and General Manager of the River Company of the Caribbean, and expressed his willingness to yield to his plans.†   (source)
  • I added that the ANC had not struggled against apartheid for seventy-five years only to yield to a disguised form of it and that if it was his true intention to preserve apartheid through the Trojan horse of group rights, then he did not truly believe in ending apartheid.†   (source)
  • Ryan cried the words without intending to yield to emotion.†   (source)
  • Torn turned him away and walked him in circles, as she'd seen him do on a halter, bending him, making him yield to pressure and roll his hindquarters across.†   (source)
  • Not so much paternally, in that grim way my father always impressed himself on me, which eventually built up in my chest a resolve that told me I would never yield to him or surrender.†   (source)
  • Even death, Alessandro thought, would yield to beauty-if not in fact then in explanation-for the likeness of every great question could be found in forms as simple as songs, and there, if not explicable, they were at least perfectly apprehensible.†   (source)
  • We yield to this slow flood….†   (source)
  • They yield to a bias and they entangle themselves in words and subtleties.†   (source)
  • Like Agorwal, who had been happy to sacrifice everything for the good of the people, and Jensin Brent, who refused to yield to despair, Kemp of Targos set about rallying his people for a retaliatory strike.†   (source)
  • To yield to them?†   (source)
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