All 4 Uses of
yield
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- Snow fell that morning outside the courthouse windows, four tall, narrow arches of leaded glass that yielded a great quantity of weak December light.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *yielded = gave or produced
- His thoughts, however, yielded no clue as to how to talk to Hatsue.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- After ten minutes of polite assistance Ishmael wondered aloud if his DeSoto wasn't the answer and persisted in this vein for five minutes more before Hisao yielded to it as an unavoidable evil.
Chpt 22 (definition 2)yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave 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.
Chpt 29 (definition 2) *yield = give in, give way, or give up
Definitions:
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(1) (yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2) (yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up