Sentence examples for yield to him from inspiring English sources

Yet some inner part of her cannot yield to him.

He settled an arm around her waist and felt her yield to him.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Nicholls' lack of success to date in the Aintree race is difficult to explain, given that most of the sport's major events seem to yield to him with a minimum of fuss.

But when the two appear together, as at that post-election press conference, Mr Lafontaine manages to look the senior partner, and Mr Schröder tends to yield to him with at least as much respect as irritation.

The President is left with the choice of accepting or vetoing the whole thing, and though he can, through veto threats, get Congress to yield to him on certain matters, he has to swallow a lot or let the government be shut down.

Everyone yielded to him, or learned to.

While admired here for his unyielding stance, Mr. Gardner is also the source of frustration and irritation to New Hampshire's top officials who have yielded to him the power to do the one thing that has made the state so famous.

She yielded to him as if she were, to quote John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," someone "half in love with easeful death," who longed "to cease upon the midnight with no pain".

She let him take her out to lunches in the West End, listening to his fantasized accounts of his prodigious wealth, though none of it ever reached her, and after the coffee and the brandy — or so I picture it — yielded to him in some safe house before he scurried off to run the world.

He enters the fray and confronts Fergus, who keeps his side of the bargain and yields to him, pulling his forces off the field.