All 16 Uses
yield
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- An he yield not his secret now, ye shall see him torn asunder.†
Chpt 17 *yield = give
- And then they all three cried, Sir Knight, we yield us unto you as man of might matchless.†
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- As to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives and else not.†
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- As to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives and else not.†
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- Fair knight, said they, that were we loath to do; for as for Sir Kay we chased him hither, and had overcome him had ye not been; therefore, to yield us unto him it were no reason.†
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- Then shall ye, said Sir Launcelot, on Whitsunday next coming go unto the court of King Arthur, and there shall ye yield you unto Queen Guenever, and put you all three in her grace and mercy, and say that Sir Kay sent you thither to be her prisoners.†
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- and all these and the former nine he made to swear that about Whitsuntide they would ride to Arthur's court and yield them to Queen Guenever's hands as captives of Sir Kay the Seneschal, spoil of his knightly prowess;†
Chpt 3
- They wait to yield them.†
Chpt 14
- So she swore them to appear at Arthur's court within two days and yield them, with horse and harness, and be my knights henceforth, and subject to my command.†
Chpt 14
- She saw she had to yield.†
Chpt 17
- And then Sir Marhaus alight down, and bad the duke yield him or else he would slay him.†
Chpt 19
- When the duke saw he might not escape the death, he cried to his sons, and charged them to yield them to Sir Marhaus.†
Chpt 19
- I yield.†
Chpt 25
- I knew how she feels, and that there is no other satisfied ambition, whether of king, conqueror, or poet, that ever reaches half-way to that serene far summit or yields half so divine a contentment.†
Chpt 26
- He told how he had begun life an orphan lad without money and without friends able to help him; how he had lived as the slaves of the meanest master lived; how his day's work was from sixteen to eighteen hours long, and yielded him only enough black bread to keep him in a half-fed condition; how his faithful endeavors finally attracted the attention of a good blacksmith, who came near knocking him dead with kindness by suddenly offering, when he was totally unprepared, to take him as his bound apprentice for nine years and give him board and clothes and teach him the trade—or "mystery" as Dowley called it.†
Chpt 32 *
- The king had to yield.†
Chpt 39
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)