All 19 Uses of

yield

in

Selected Essays

The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.†
Chpt 2.

yield = give in, give way, or give up

In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity; yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.†
Chpt 3.

Our age yields no great and perfect persons.
Chpt 3.

yields = produces or gives

I have had such fine fancies lately about two or three persons, as have given me delicious hours, but the joy ends in the day: it yields no fruit.
Chpt 4.

For there is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.†
Chpt 6. *

yield = give in, give way, or give up

There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery, together with a failure to yield a present satisfaction.
Chpt 8. *

yield = produce or give

Money, if kept by us, yields no rent and is liable to loss; if invested, is liable to depreciation of the particular kind of stock.
Chpt 10.

yields = produces or gives

Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; not to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?†
Chpt 1.

It permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances, and the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years; and the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden flower, with no room for its roots and too much sunshine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener, is made the banyan[144] of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.†
Chpt 2.

What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!†
Chpt 3.

In a good lord, there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.†
Chpt 6.

They are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons, in the ordinary course of things, must yield the possession of the harvest, to new competitors with keener eyes and stronger frames.†
Chpt 6.

The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers, are the places where Man executes his will; let him yield or divide the scepter at the door of the house.†
Chpt 6.

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also.†
Chpt 7.

We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.†
Chpt 7.

The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains; the waving rye-fields; the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to wind-harps;[475] the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine-logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room,—these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.†
Chpt 8.

If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.†
Chpt 10.

When each new speaker strikes a new light, emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought, then yields us to another redeemer, we seem to recover our rights, to become men.†
Chpt 11.

Definitions:

(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)