Literary notes about yielded (AI summary)
The word "yielded" is employed in literature in a variety of nuanced ways, ranging from physical surrender to the production of results. It can describe a character’s reluctant capitulation under external pressure or internal conflict, as when someone gives in to temptation or to emotional despair ([1], [2]), or even when a person verbally and physically concedes in a moment of vulnerability ([3], [4]). At the same time, "yielded" is used to denote the output or result of an effort—be that nature producing fruit ([5], [6]) or a fortress succumbing under a relentless siege ([7], [8]). In some instances, authors employ the term to suggest a transformation where control is relinquished or fate takes its course ([9], [10]), adding layers of meaning that enrich the narrative through evoking both surrender and creation.
- “Well, when he saw that they were indeed the proofs, it was then that he yielded to temptation.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - She passed immediately to the chamber, where the remains of her father were laid, and yielded to all the anguish of hopeless grief.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe - I didn’t have it in my mind a minute ago, to say a word about myself; but it come up so nat’ral, that I yielded to it afore I was aweer.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - I had not fallen asleep on purpose, but had only yielded to the demands of exhausted nature, and, if I may say so, to the extremity of my need.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - And other some fell upon good ground and, being sprung up, yielded fruit a hundredfold.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The profits yielded by this road are unusually large, amounting, it is said, to seventy or eighty per cent.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie - The Christians yielded at length to the perseverance of the besiegers.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The Pannonians yielded at length to the arms and institutions of Rome.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - My mastery the Fickle Goddess owned, And even Chance, submitting to control, Grasped by the forelock, yielded to my will.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - I yielded to fate and endeavored to descend.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
