All 19 Uses of

yield

in

The Three Musketeers

The conditions required that at every hit the man touched should quit the game, yielding his turn for the benefit of the adversary who had hit him.
Chpt 2. (definition 1)

yielding = giving up

"Yes, but to yield!" said Porthos.
Chpt 5. (definition 1)

yield = surrender (give up)

Though alone against all and with a wound in his thigh, Bicarat wished to hold out; but Jussac, who had risen upon his elbow, cried out to him to yield.
Chpt 5. (definition 1)

In fact, four men such as they were—four men devoted to one another, from their purses to their lives; four men always supporting one another, never yielding, executing singly or together the resolutions formed in common; four arms threatening the four cardinal points, or turning toward a single point—must inevitably, either subterraneously, in open day, by mining, in the trench, by cunning, or by force, open themselves a way toward the object they wished to attain, however well it…
Chpt 8. (definition 1)

yielding = giving up

Treville bowed very respectfully, with a joy that was not unmixed with fear; he would have preferred an obstinate resistance on the part of the cardinal to this sudden yielding.
Chpt 15. (definition 1)

yielding = giving in (doing what was asked)

In your place, in truth, sire, I should yield to such powerful instance; and on my part, it would be a real happiness to withdraw from public affairs.
Chpt 16. (definition 1)

yield = give in

"Listen," said she; "I yield to your protestations, I yield to your assurances."
Chpt 18. (definition 1)

"Listen," said she; "I yield to your protestations, I yield to your assurances."
Chpt 18. (definition 1)

yield = give in (accept)

At the sight of his friend, Porthos uttered a loud cry of joy; and Mousqueton, rising respectfully, yielded his place to him, and went to give an eye to the two stewpans, of which he appeared to have the particular inspection.
Chpt 25. (definition 1)

yielded = gave up

…the fortifications through which Athos had made a breach in order to get out, and which were composed of fagots, planks, and empty casks, heaped up according to all the rules of the strategic art, they found, swimming in puddles of oil and wine, the bones and fragments of all the hams they had eaten; while a heap of broken bottles filled the whole left-hand corner of the cellar, and a tun, the cock of which was left running, was yielding, by this means, the last drop of its blood.
Chpt 27. (definition 2) *

yielding = producing

Porthos, yielding to the pressure of the arm of the procurator's wife, as a bark yields to the rudder, arrived at the cloister St. Magloire—a little-frequented passage, enclosed with a turnstile at each end.
Chpt 29. (definition 1)

yielding = giving in

Porthos, yielding to the pressure of the arm of the procurator's wife, as a bark yields to the rudder, arrived at the cloister St. Magloire—a little-frequented passage, enclosed with a turnstile at each end.
Chpt 29. (definition 1)

yields = gives in

He, however, darted not the less quickly toward Milady, yielding to that magnetic attraction which the loadstone exercises over iron.
Chpt 37. (definition 1)

yielding = giving in

After supper I exhibited the same marks of languor as on the preceding evening; but this time, as I yielded to fatigue, or as if I had become familiarized with danger, I dragged myself toward my bed, let my robe fall, and lay down.
Chpt 56. (definition 1)

yielded = gave in

He was yielding to your infernal influence; but I will save him.
Chpt 58. (definition 1)

yielding = giving in

At the same moment the door of the cell yielded to a shock, rather than opened; several men rushed into the chamber.
Chpt 63. (definition 1)

yielded = gave way

Aramis, after a journey into Lorraine, disappeared all at once, and ceased to write to his friends; they learned at a later period through Mme. de Chevreuse, who told it to two or three of her intimates, that, yielding to his vocation, he had retired into a convent—only into which, nobody knew.
Chpt Epil. (definition 1)

yielding = giving in

Definitions:

(2) (yield as in: will yield valuable data)
to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced