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Even the little variety which I used was a yielding to the demands of appetite, and not of health.†
Chpt 1

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
But I retained the landscape, and I have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow.†
Chpt 2 *

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and health of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.†
Chpt 3

yields = gives in, gives way, or gives up
Is it some ill-fed village hound yielding to the instinct of the chase?†
Chpt 12

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
The woods do not yield another such a gem.†
Chpt 12

yield = produce or give
They told me that in a good day they could get out a thousand tons, which was the yield of about one acre.†
Chpt 16 *

yield = production
Moreover, if you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences; you are compelled to deal with the material which yields the most sugar and the most starch.†
Chpt 18

yields = gives or produces
But they yield such respect, numerous as they are, are so far heathen, and need to have a missionary sent to them.†
Chpt 1
To enjoy these advantages I was ready to carry it on; like Atlas, to take the world on my shoulders—I never heard what compensation he received for that—and do all those things which had no other motive or excuse but that I might pay for it and be unmolested in my possession of it; for I knew all the while that it would yield the most abundant crop of the kind I wanted, if I could only afford to let it alone.†
Chpt 2
This was my curious labor all summer—to make this portion of the earth's surface, which had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort, and the like, before, sweet wild fruits and pleasant flowers, produce instead this pulse.†
Chpt 7
It has a constant and imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.†
Chpt 7
And, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder fields unimproved by man?†
Chpt 7
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop.†
Chpt 7
The fruits do not yield their true flavor to the purchaser of them, nor to him who raises them for the market.†
Chpt 9
My way led through Pleasant Meadow, an adjunct of the Baker Farm, that retreat of which a poet has since sung, beginning,— "Thy entry is a pleasant field, Which some mossy fruit trees yield Partly to a ruddy brook, By gliding musquash undertook, And mercurial trout, Darting about."†
Chpt 10
For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.†
Chpt 15
If you look closely you observe that first there pushes forward from the thawing mass a stream of softened sand with a drop-like point, like the ball of the finger, feeling its way slowly and blindly downward, until at last with more heat and moisture, as the sun gets higher, the most fluid portion, in its effort to obey the law to which the most inert also yields, separates from the latter and forms for itself a meandering channel or artery within that, in which is seen a little silvery stream glancing like lightning from one stage of pulpy leaves or branches to another, and ever and anon swallowed up in the sand.†
Chpt 17

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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
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