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When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her adherence.†
Chpt 1.1

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it.
Chpt 1.1 *

yields = gives in
The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent movement, which enlarged the opening a little.†
Chpt 1.2

yielded = gave way (moved)
He could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him.†
Chpt 1.2

yield = give in, give way, or give up
He was indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man.†
Chpt 1.2

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Woe to him who yields himself to the unstable heart of woman!
Chpt 1.3

yields = gives in (surrenders)
She yielded mechanically.†
Chpt 1.5 *

yielded = produced or gave
After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two thousand years ago, "March on!"†
Chpt 1.7

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach himself.†
Chpt 1.7

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its retreat.
Chpt 2.1

yields = gives up
Wellington felt that he was yielding.†
Chpt 2.1

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
An army which is disbanding is like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented.
Chpt 2.1

yields = instances of giving up ground
It seemed evident that certain Spanish officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned humiliated.†
Chpt 2.2

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done better than that.†
Chpt 3.8
While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by Cosette's side.†
Chpt 4.8

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:— "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my things.†
Chpt 4.11
Nothing was lacking in the capture by assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, the frenzied madness of extermination.†
Chpt 5.1

yielded = gave way (moved)
Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him.†
Chpt 5.4

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear!†
Chpt 5.6

yield = give in, give way, or give up
Her husband had not been obliged to say anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly.†
Chpt 5.9

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
It continued to yield in silence.†
Chpt 1.2
Behind him and around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory.†
Chpt 1.8
the inexorable ravine could only yield when filled;†
Chpt 2.1
Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded.†
Chpt 2.1
The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,—Hougomont, La Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit.†
Chpt 2.1
They have yielded a great deal of juice under the press.†
Chpt 2.3
It yields before the iron.†
Chpt 2.3
Her nostrils were livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh.†
Chpt 2.6
Then his wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, and that consoles her.†
Chpt 3.2
The father had yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to flowers.†
Chpt 3.3
His soft, yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves to Enjolras as to a spinal column.†
Chpt 3.4
Montparnasse himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thenardier's son-in-law, yielded.†
Chpt 4.6
If, at that period of her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them.†
Chpt 4.8
One of woman's magnanimities is to yield.†
Chpt 4.8
He did not bend, he did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally.†
Chpt 4.8
He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" would yield.†
Chpt 4.8
At a single point the insurgents yielded; they abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la Corderie.†
Chpt 4.10
He had accepted every extremity when it had been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a martyr.†
Chpt 4.15
That would yield you five hundred francs.†
Chpt 4.15
Triumph of that which yields over that which strikes with lightning.†
Chpt 5.1
Chinese wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed.†
Chpt 5.2
He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened.†
Chpt 5.7

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(1) (yield as in: will yield valuable data)
to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
(2) (yield as in: yield to pressure)
to give in, give way, or give up
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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