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Letter "Y" » yielded
«In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily»
«My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.»
«How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan»
«And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.»
«QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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«Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.»
«Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.»
Author: John Milton
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Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
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Pride and,
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«It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
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Philosopher,
Theologian)
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Keywords:
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