All 11 Uses
yield
in
The Border Legion
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- It appeared to be her skill, rather than her willingness, that he yielded to.
Chpt 4 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- But now that she had liberated herself, and at such cost, she must not yield to sentiment.†
Chpt 6yield = give in, give way, or give up
- Then she yielded to the temptation to peep once more under the edge of the curtain.†
Chpt 9yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- And with her head down, her arms straining, her body hard and rigidly unyielding she fought him all over the room, knocking over the table and seats, wrestling from wall to wall, till at last they fell across the bed and she broke his hold.†
Chpt 9unyielding = strict, firm, or hard (not giving in, not giving way, or not giving up)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Then she drew still closer to Kells, and with all the wondrous subtlety of a woman in a supreme moment where a life and a soul hang in the balance, she made of herself an absolute contrast to the fierce, wild, unyielding creature who had fought him off.†
Chpt 9
- Joan divined that he might yield to her wisdom, he might become a man, but his agony would be greater.†
Chpt 15yield = give in, give way, or give up
- She yielded, and donned the black mask, not without a twinge.†
Chpt 20yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- I'll just be a cold shell, doubled-up, unrelaxed, a callous thing never to yield.... All that's ME, the girl, the woman you say you love—will be inside, shrinking, loathing, hating, sickened to death.†
Chpt 9
- Joan seemed irresistibly drawn to him again, and the supplication, as she lifted her blushing face, and the yielding, were perilously sweet.†
Chpt 12
- Naturally she gained more by yielding herself to Jim's caresses than by any direct advice or admonishment.†
Chpt 14 *
- But it seemed that in Jim's condition of mind this yielding of her lips and her whispers of love had really been a mistake.†
Chpt 15
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)