...The pasture land was yielding scantily, sometimes for lack of rain, sometimes because of floods, and the herds were perishing by hundreds...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...The grey of dawnwas gradually yielding to the rosy light of the rising sun...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
... And so, to condense all that Jeremy has recorded in the matter, Blood ended by yielding to external and internal pressure, abandoned himself to the stream of Destiny...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... Launching himself upon the yielding sand, into which he sank to the level of the calves of his fine boots of Spanish leather, Captain Blood came sliding erect to the beach...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...You may, if you prefer it—though it would seem to me to be yielding to an excess of scruple—go straight to Boccaccio or Sacchetti...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... “In fact,” said the duke, yielding to the melancholy influence of this opening conversation, “sensitive persons live as much in the past or the future, as in the present...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... “Well, then, the true motive is that Buckingham strongly recommended the young man to me, saying: ‘Sire, I begin by yielding up all claim to Miss Grafton; I pray you follow my example...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
..." Since thedebate had, in the first place, arisen from a proposition to taxthe importation of slaves, the yielding of this point by theSouth was the first move toward compromise...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...Domingo," and thus yielding "one of the finest islands in theworld" to "scenes which had never been practised since thedestruction of Carthage...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...The traders who have come here seem to have been very timid, yielding to every demand made on the most frivolous pretenses...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...It sucks the blood until quite full, and is then of a dark blue color, and its skin so tough and yielding that it is impossible to burst it by any amount of squeezing with the fingers...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...He, with his attendants, carried her through the yielding vegetation, up to their waists in water, above which they could just keep her head, till they reached the banks...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...The muddy waters of the river, when at a low stage, lap the ever crumbling banks that yearly change, yielding to new deflections of the current...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
... In this tremendous strugglebetween fathers and sons—and especially between parents anddaughters—there was no compromise, no weak yielding, no truce...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
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