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The Once and Future King
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- You have got to yield, or I shall cut off your head.†
Book 1yield = give in, give way, or give up
- I would not yield to a cheat who started fightin' after he said Pax.†
Book 1
- Their masterly circles, as they waited on—mere specks in the sky—and the bur-r-r with which they scythed on the grouse, and the way in which the wretched quarry, killed instantaneously, went end-over-tip into the heather—these were a temptation to which he yielded in the uncomfortable knowledge that it was sin.†
Book 2yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Financial terms of peace would be agreed on—which would yield an excellent profit in ransoms—and all would be more or less as it had been before—except that the fiction of feudal overlordship would be abolished, which was a fiction in any case.†
Book 2 *yield = produce or give
- These two conservative barons had never yielded to Arthur, and they did not believe in any form of government except the rule of force.†
Book 3yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Arthur would say: "You are welcome to Carlion, Sir Belleus, and may I ask which of my knights you have yielded to?"†
Book 3 *
- And Sir Belleus, blushing rather and wondering whether the laughter was at him, would say in a small voice: "Yes, I yielded to Sir Lancelot."†
Book 3
- Besides these, there were many people from adventures which we have left out—mainly knights who had yielded to Sir Lancelot when he was disguised as Sir Kay.†
Book 3
- He only squealed at him to give in and hit his face with the flat of the sword until he yielded.†
Book 3
- So far as he himself was concerned, he had every right to insist en yielding to the God he loved, as Bors had yielded to Lionel But when Guenever threw herself across him, as the hermit had thrown himself across Bors, had he the right to sacrifice his old love as the hermit had been sacrificed?†
Book 3yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- So far as he himself was concerned, he had every right to insist en yielding to the God he loved, as Bors had yielded to Lionel But when Guenever threw herself across him, as the hermit had thrown himself across Bors, had he the right to sacrifice his old love as the hermit had been sacrificed?†
Book 3yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Ow, I yield to you, dear Queen.†
Book 3yield = give in, give way, or give up
- When, finally, the combat took place, Sir Meliagrance lay flat on his back and insisted on yielding to Sir Lancelot It was impossible to make him get up in any way, until Lancelot offered to take off his helm, and the left side of his armour, and to have one hand tied behind his back.†
Book 4yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- I will not yield.†
Book 4yield = give in, give way, or give up
- "Yield, recreant, what?" cried King Pellinore.†
Book 1
- "Yield thee, recreant," said the King.†
Book 1
- You know you have to yield when your helm is off.†
Book 1
- The King lowered his sword and said, "Oh, I say, do yield, please."†
Book 1
- "You yield," said Sir Grummore.†
Book 1
- But I can't yield.†
Book 1
- I do think you are a cad not to yield.†
Book 1
- The lands of Pleasance, Pavia, Petersaint, and the Port of Tremble yielded him homage.†
Book 3
- If you are Lancelot, I must never yield or make friends.†
Book 3
- ," said Lancelot "He was killed in fair fight and never offered to yield.†
Book 3
- I am sorry he would not yield.†
Book 3
- I yield.†
Book 3
- I yield.†
Book 3
- Knights yielded under this category included Gawaine, Uwaine, Sagramour, Ector de Maris, and three others.†
Book 3
- "I yield, I yield!" cried Sir Meliagrance.†
Book 3
- "I yield, I yield!" cried Sir Meliagrance.†
Book 3
- And, in truly yielding, she had won the battle by mistake.†
Book 3
- "I yield," he said.†
Book 3
- But her smile and yielding only moved him afresh.†
Book 4
- "When I was a young knight,1" said Gawaine, "God forgive it, and fell into disputacious battle, I was used to backslide into passions—aye, and kill a body after he had yielded.†
Book 4
- He took it out of the limp hand, which yielded it automatically, and began to read, tilting'the page to the light.†
Book 4
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)