Don and the other two lads came up while Wayne was still laughing over Paddy’s narrative, and, yielding the pistol, Wayne stood aside and watched the next trial.
For an instant the thought of yielding presented itself, but only to be routed in the next breath by a resolve to keep on, to contest the race to the very end, to run until he dropped.
Yielding to "the inexorable law of a stern necessity," I went to the Rock House, and a very pleasing girl produced a suit of oiled calico.
Besides this the child grows pigeon-breasted, owing to the lungs not being filled sufficiently at each inspiration to overcome the pressure of the external air on the yielding sides of the chest.
Slowly and reluctantly yielding to the necessity, he quitted the place, and mingled with the throng that hovered nigh.
Alice trembled violently, and there was an instant during which she bent her face aside, yielding to the emotions common to her sex; but they quickly passed away, leaving her mistress of her deportment, if not of her affections.
Only a very small piece had been cleared, yet almost every acre was capable of yielding all the various rich productions of a tropical land.
Their daily food is found them, and they acquire no habits of carefulness; moreover, temptation and the means of yieldingto it are placed in their power at the same time.
The ground in many parts was fissured in north and south lines, perhaps caused by the yielding of the parallel and steep sides of this narrow island.
Not of thy kingliness; but that same gracious quality of yielding to counsel which bows this proud nature to submission often makes me fear for thy firmness, when thy will is, won through thy heart.
The voice of the croupier was soon heard announcing that the monte would recommence, and yielding to the pressing invitation of those around me, I resumed my position at the table.
Even at that supreme moment the great heart of the man reproached him for yielding himself to a deception, though the motive of it was to save his sister's life.
He had preached so much against the practice that he was ashamed of yielding to it himself.
A little silvery laugh right inside the window went straight to his heart, then followed a word or two in a musical masculine voice, then a strong effort, and yielding to it, the long French window opened with a creak.
This yielding mood did not, however, last long, for he declared that if John and his people did not come in three days he would start without them.
But as to the feathered tribe, they were not so numerous as one might have supposed; the plants yielding grain necessary for the sustenance of birds not being able to thrive in the dense shade of the forests.
An iron will prevented me from ever yieldingto any obstacle.
Unarmed, therefore, he determined not to encounter his enemy hand to hand, regretting his own folly in yielding to passion and endeavouring to slay him at disadvantage, thus warning him of danger, and setting him on his guard.
It reassures and comforts; nay, it is the sweetest thing you ever said to me--that you could find no happiness in my yielding unless I yield happily.
Yielding to this indefinite anxiety, often harder to bear than a real sorrow, Blanche could not rest, and the sound of a knock at her door in the middle of the night awoke in her fresh terror.
Every morning the marquis paid her a visit, but when, yieldingto the grief which she experienced on being separated from him she loved, the sweet child allowed her tears to flow, the marquis left her abruptly.
A province yielding little profit, and often in rebellion.
Yet even he paid court to the child, and, yielding to the implied command of outstretched arms, took Sa'adut to share the cushion of state on the state carpet.
Then the thought that he might have so had it, ready in his own possession, but for little Sa'adut, made him call himself a fool for yielding to the child's tears.
For youth is facile, and its yielding will Receives, with fatal ease, the imprint of ill: Hence Catilines in every clime abound; But where are Cato and his nephew found!
I, kissing her yielding hand, and turning deliberately away, though with the sensation of one stunned by a thunderbolt.
But just as she was yielding to despair, she saw the Indian returning in a stealthy pace, bearing some dark object in his arms.
And take this," said Mary, placing some food in his yielding hand.
I knew that he was honest and generous by nature, but I knew not to what extent his dissolute habits (gradually acquired by having ample means, and yielding by degrees to the temptations of vice) had perverted his good qualities.
Joe, yielding to sudden alarm, having momentarily forgotten the anticipated danger when he proposed opening the door.
He has learnt, from certain symptoms, that we are at last yielding to his blandishments.
They poured forth unceasingly; they were life in everyone; they were joy in everyone; they stirred an incommunicable love which was fulfilled only in yielding to and adoration of the vast.
Oh, hero, as thy heart o'erflows In tender yielding unto me, A vast desire awakes and grows Unto forgetfulness of thee.
On the second day I again gathered three hundred bunches of smaller size, two only producing one gerav (one bunch yielding the quantity of wine 144 egg-shells would contain).
Be yielding to thy superior; be affable toward the young; be friendly with all mankind.
He became convinced that in yielding to this call lay his only hope of recovery, and had he not done so his life would have gone out.
After a dull month, the Parlement, yielding and retaining, makes truce, as all Parlements must.
Here, however, in defect of such transcendent supreme man, Time with its infinite succession of merely superior men, each yielding his little contribution, does much.
Yielding to violence, the Doomed uplift the Hymn of the Marseillese; return singing to their dungeon.
Immense beds of iron ore, of superior quality, yielding 85 to 90 per cent.
We became flushed with success, and familiar with the danger; and, yielding to the excitement of the occasion, broke forth into a Canadian boat-song.
