All 10 Uses of
yield
in
Interview with the Vampire
- We were in love, and so euphoric was I after those hopeless nights of wandering in eastern Europe that I yielded completely when Claudia moved us into the Hote1 Saint-Gabriel on the Boulevard des Capucines.
Part 3yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- And maddened as I was more by that than anything else, I found myself yielding to a slow smile, defying the sweat which had broken from every pore and the violent tremor in my legs.
Part 3yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- 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.
Part 3 *
- You would yield to me now were I to question you.†
Part 3yield = give in, give way, or give up
- Yet I let him slip his bold, drunken arm around my waist; I yielded to his adoring eyes, to the voice that begged to paint me now and spoke of warmth, to the rich, sweet smell of the oils that streaked his loose shirt.
Part 3yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- I felt no compunction in yielding to my urge to touch her cheeks, to lightly touch her eyelids—familiarities, liberties I hadn't taken with her since the night of our quarrel.
Part 3yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- The old blind man must be told constantly how fine and expensive were his bed jackets and robes and what imported draperies had just been fixed to his bed and what French and Spanish wines we had in the cellar and how much the plantation yielded even in bad years when the coast talked of abandoning the indigo production altogether and going into sugar.†
Part 1
- That the death of an animal yielded such pleasure and experience to me that I had only begun to understand it, and wished to save the experience of human death for my mature understanding.†
Part 1 *
- When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.†
Part 1
- Never had I felt this, never had I experienced it, this yielding of a conscious mortal.†
Part 3
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)