All 35 Uses of
yield
in
A Storm of Swords
- Her voice was as unyielding as stone.†
p. 23.7unyielding = 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.
- Yet he fights on grimly, will not yield.†
p. 40.1yield = give in, give way, or give up
- Spare all those who yield and hold them captive.†
p. 159.7 *yield = produce or give
- Tyrion tried to speak of other things, but he met a wall of sullen courtesy as icy and unyielding as the Wall he'd once walked in the north.†
p. 171.1unyielding = 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.
- You made her yield to you.†
p. 208.5yield = give in, give way, or give up
- To yield, she thought, to make a peace.†
p. 282.4
- It is not in Stannis to yield, so long as he knows his claim is just.†
p. 353.9
- And the men kicked, driving the spikes on their boots against the hard unyielding ice again and again and again and again to make one foothold.†
p. 410.1unyielding = 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.
- Aerys would have no yielding.†
p. 507.5yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- Catelyn could tell that her son was furious, but he yielded with as much courtesy as he could summon.†
p. 697.1 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Gently, he spoke of Braavos, and met a wall of sullen courtesy as icy and unyielding as the Wall he had walked once in the north.†
p. 813.9unyielding = 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.
- Seagard had yielded to Black Walder Frey, Lord Randyll Tarly held Maidenpool, Duskendale, and the kingsroad.†
p. 814.7yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Jaime yielded with hardly a fight.†
p. 843.9
- Donnel was wounded in the battle and yielded to Ser Elwood Harte.†
p. 921.9
- Old Frey's going to hang Edmure Tully unless he yields the castle.†
p. 1030.5yields = gives or produces
- For half a heartbeat she yielded to his kiss ...before she turned her face away and wrenched free.†
p. 1104.4yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- I took an arrow in the arm just before Ser Rolph yielded us the castle.†
p. 195.7
- There was some wanted to yield then, but Lord Beric wouldn't hear of it.†
p. 230.5
- The man had stumbled backward, dropping his sword, pleading, yielding, even yanking off his thick black glove and thrusting it up before him as if it were a gauntlet.†
p. 239.7
- "They died," said Rickard Karstark, yielding no inch of ground.†
p. 275.7
- Time to yield.†
p. 282.4
- Instead she forced him back into the brook again, shouting, "Yield!†
p. 291.3
- YIELD!†
p. 291.5
- Yield!†
p. 291.7
- Yield!†
p. 291.7
- Yield, or I'll drown you!†
p. 291.8
- His Grace will never yield, my lord.†
p. 352.4
- The plan would have required the Watch to yield back a large part of the Gift, but his uncle Benjen believed the Lord Commander could be won around, so long as the new lordlings paid taxes to Castle Black rather than Winterfell.†
p. 557.7
- Their slaves threw down their spears and ran, and their sellswords yielded.†
p. 588.2
- Any castle that yields to us will be spared, save one.†
p. 714.4
- The crown shall grant Riverrun to Ser Emmon Frey once the Blackfish yields.†
p. 720.7
- "I yield, I yield," the dwarf on the bottom screamed.†
p. 825.0
- "I yield, I yield," the dwarf on the bottom screamed.†
p. 825.0
- My sister has told me how readily you yielded my nephew to Tyrion's sellswords.†
p. 919.5
- Was there some part of yield you could not comprehend, Lord Snow?†
p. 1088.8
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)