No one," says another writer, "can fairly judge of Israel's heritage who has not seen the exuberance of Gilead as well as the hard rocks of Judaea which only yield their abundance to reward constant toil and care.
The Hebrew tribes, for their part, were, on the whole, too ready to live at peace and to yield not a little for the sake of peace.
Those who yield where they should protest, who submit where they should argue and reprove, make a path for selfishness and injustice and increase evil instead of lessening it.
The great talk made about temptations, the ready excuses many find for themselves when they yield are signs of a feebleness of will which in other ranges of life the same persons would be ashamed to own.
There are many who are exceedingly easy in their beliefs, too ready to yield to the Zeit Geist that would obliterate definite belief and with it the vigour and hope of mankind.
Are they not set in their natural freedom each to yield fruit as best it can after its kind?
He rushed upon Nicolo, trying to beat down his guard, but his antagonist did not yield a single inch.
And that is why I have come to you to-day to beg of you to yield to the entreaties of your friends at Barton and pay them a visit.
Among the higher classes, how often do young men receive encouragement, andyield themselves up to a passion, to end only in disappointment!
The bishops at first were inclined to yield to the King, but Becket gained them over, and would make no concession.
But submission was to yield up the liberties of the Church.
He resolved he would not yield up the privileges of his order, come what might,--not even if the Pope gave him authority to sign.
He therefore resolved toyield no further, but to stand on his rights.
That gone, there was nothing left to stand between the toilers and the old relentless pressure of the competitive struggle, ever driving the employers to ask more, and ever compelling the wage-earners to yield more.
Jocelyn realized that he would be compelled to yield to force, held his tongue, and cast a distracted look at Mazurec.
That savage and eccentric warrior seems sometimes to yield to generous impulses.
Conrad," said Gerard, "repeat the empty words, yield to these cowardly varlets.
And it therefore often happens that, to escape the disgrace, brides yield themselves to their intended husbands before marriage.
Night is about toyield to day; the moon is setting; the first glimmerings of dawn begin to crimson the eastern sky.
Truth Sir, is a cow which willyield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Some years ago, when a false rumour was spread that I had a design to yield up Corsica to the Emperour, a Corsican came to me, and addressed me in great agitation.
Untrammeled bosoms swelling free and white And prodigal of balm; cupped lilies bright, That to the famished mind yield their pure, best, Voluptuous sleep like honey sucked in rest.
And I said, "Yield me the lily thou hast drained that I This hollow thirst may kill and so not die?
Captain Ringgold said so much to me to induce me to remain on board of the Guardian-Mother, that I was tempted to yield the point; but it seemed to me to be cowardly to leave my friends in the face of a possible danger.
You are already tempted, and you will yield to the temptation.
I applied to the only legitimate source for aid in my weakness and the permission to yield to it; but before either arrived, Nature proved more than a match for Miss Darry, and sent me exhausted to bed.
Again, we are reminded that military power must yield to the civil power and to the rights of self-government.
Avoiding the Sicilian whirlpool, he did not run upon the Italian rock or yield to the voice of the charmer.
If there were to be any yielding, he would not yield as yet; but that living in his house without sunshine was very grievous to him.
She did not intend, however, to yieldherself as an easy prey to his selfishness.
Take a large soda-water tumbler, and bruise into it twelve or more strawberries, or any fruit which willyield not less than a table-spoonful of juice.
The reason for steeping the pips is that they yield a glutinous substance, which adds richness to the marmalade.
Where possible, fresh plants should be used for distilling purposes, as they more readily yield their essential oils than is usually the case with dried plants.
Pick out every pip, and squeeze every drop of juice the lemons will yieldinto a jug.
Pare six large common apples, boil them till quite soft, and pass them through the sieve, when they will yield all the liquid they contain.
They were also probably the most inflexible in their determination not to yield to white sovereignty, and formed the backbone of the Indian opposition in the disasters at Fort Phil Kearney in Wyoming and at the Little Big Horn in Montana.
The rivers also yield pike, perch, and sunfish, as well as catfish and pickerel.
They yield one of the rarest and most valuable types of clay for pottery and other specialized purposes.
Two beds in the Dickinson vicinity, each containing approximately 29 million cubic yards, yield the finest clays in the State.
The products of the geological pastyield valuable returns.
About 85 percent of the yield of barley is consumed by hogs and lambs.
A writer of that time says that "though North Dakota didn't have granite bluffs and waterfalls for its beauty, a land that would yield twice its cost in the first year would look rather beautiful to most men.
Mounds and village and camp sitesyield arrowheads, stone implements, enigmatic petroglyphs, beads, and pottery.
Yet I am assured that the breed is workmanlike and enduring, and I have known it to yield most satisfactory progeny when crossed with English racing blood.
Nor does the king of the Van country yield in splendour to his colleagues; the caliph himself sends him a crown and magnificent robes.
The ground was crumbling with excessive dryness; the soil is rich, and would no doubt yield crops of great value were it cultivated on a liberal scale.
The wild vine hangs in festoons from the branches, and in sheltered places the orange tree, the lemon, and the pomegranate thrive and yield their fruit.
There the open stage of the wide hemicycle is filled with rolling hills and level expanses which yield abundant crops of cereals.
The more learned are inclined to a much later foundation, but do not yield in point of philological plausibility to the champions of the identification with Noah's city.
These are the reverse and the obverse of life; they are brought to the same rules and must yield obedience to the same authority.
This is not surprising, for the defenders of the system well know that if this stronghold of caste is at all weakened, the whole will speedily yield to modern attack.
Mrs Harrel, "let me but see my brother, and his heart will yield to my distress, and he will soften Mr Harrel by giving his unhappy sister this parting bounty.
I confidently assert that many thousands of sterile, rocky acres, which now yield less than $5 per acre annually in pasturage, would net at least double that sum to the owner if wisely devoted to forest-trees.
And thus a rocky, sterile hill-side or knoll may be made to yield a crop annually after the first two or three years from planting, while growing trees of decided value.
Hence, if five bushels per acre of Salt be applied to that field, and it does not thereupon yield five bushels more per annum of Corn, I will agree to eat the field.
I am confident that there are pastures which might be made to increase their yield of Grass one-third by a moderate dressing of it.
The Mind is hungry for knowledge, and it has by years of weary evolution and effort built up a series of sense systems in order to yield it that knowledge and it is still building.
They focus their minds on objects that do not yield immediate interest or pleasure, in order that they may learn and accomplish.
Therefore Boris dispatched a messenger to Wisniowiecki with the offer of a heavy bribe if he would yield up the person of this false Demetrius.
The proud old man refused to yield his seals to any but the King himself.
These sensitive, romantic natures are quickly stirred to passion, ever ready to yield to the adventure of it.
Nay, I am wrong; therein I yield the palm to you, my dear.
By inflaming the boorish indignation at a little frolic of our young men; and by coming with insolent demands, to yield to which would ruin us.
Dull and solid as I am, and with a wild duck waiting for me at good Mistress Odam's, I saw that there was nothing for it but toyield to these good people, and prove me a man of Somerset, by eating a dinner at their expense.
Gwenny was in a much greater fright, having never seen such a thing before, neither knowing what it is to yield to pure love's confidence.
Very true," replied the southron, "but these few acres yield me annually from ten to twelve bales of cotton: this would be too great a sacrifice for the mere gratification of the eye.
Still planters are not destitute of taste; it is their principle to make it yield to interest.
The highlands, where the soil is fertile, will yield under the most favourable circumstances about 1400 lbs.
But this summary mode of procedure is now, to the honour of the south, rapidly falling into disuse, and men feel willing to yield to the dignity of the law and acquiesce in its decisions, even to the sacrifice of individual prejudices.
You may be sure I would never yield anything I believed in--even to please you.
He was glad to yield at last to feeling alone, to almost irresistible feeling.
It is hard as a matter of fact to find in the ancients anything resembling Rousseauistic revery, even when theyyield to the pastoral mood.
Since literature and history have no meaning from the point of view of moral choice they may at least be made to yield the maximum of æsthetic satisfaction.
The dictates of the human law are only too likely to yield in the case of both men and women to the rush of outer impressions and the tumult of the desires within.
