Yielding

Famous quotes containing the word yielding:

    ‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new
    And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
    Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    The yielding marble of her snowy breast.
    Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

    I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies—every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)