"Yield up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the wise and the generous are vain, If Truth by the bowstring must yield up her breath, Let Mutes do the office—and spare her the pain Of an Inglis or Tyndal to ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... him so great and so general a love, that all his former opposers repented what they had done; and therefore persuaded him to venture to stand a second time. And, upon these, and other like encouragements, he did again, but not without an inward unwillingness, yield up his own reason to their's, and promised to stand. And he did so; and was the tenth of April, 1616, chosen Senior Proctor for the year following; Mr. Charles Crooke[6] of Christ Church being then ...
— Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, - &C, Volume Two • Izaak Walton
... its yoke. Father, thy daughter nobly wed unto a glorious son, And knit the bonds of peace thereby in troth-plight never done. Or if such terror and so great upon our hearts doth lie, Let us adjure the man himself, and pray him earnestly To yield up this his proper right to country and to king:— —O why into the jaws of death wilt thou so often fling 360 Thine hapless folk, O head and fount of all the Latin ill? No safety is in war; all we, for peace we pray thee still, O Turnus,—for the only ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... broken. Three times injured, it might have been supposed that he would have retired; but again shifting his flag to another vessel, he remained on deck in his cot, and directed the battle until, faint from loss of blood and pain, he consented to yield up command to the senior captain, who took ...
— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston
... destined in time to overthrow capitalism. "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers."[6] In the interest of society the nine-tenths would force the one-tenth to yield up its private property, that is to say, its "power to ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter
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