Yieldest

Since thou art bold, and yieldest not to my speech, but thus answerest me so as to grieve my mind, thou wilt rather inflame me to urge thy death. ❋ 480? BC-406 BC Euripides (N/A)

A learned man without works is a bee without honey: -- Tell that harsh and ungenerous hornet: As thou yieldest no honey, wound not with thy sting. ❋ Various (N/A)

“But what great thing is it that thou, who art dust and nothingness, yieldest thyself to man for God’s sake, when I, the Almighty and the Most High, who created all things out of nothing, subjected Myself to man for thy sake? ❋ Unknown (1909)

And saith: 'These limbs thou yieldest to my prayer; ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Thou indeed both art bold, and yieldest nought to thy bitter calamities, but art over free in thy language. ❋ 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus (1840)

Whosoever thou art, be not surprised if thou yieldest and consentest to any lusts whatsoever, since thou either supposest them to be good for fulfilling libidinous excess, or thou undoubtedly seest them now to be so evil, that yet by yielding to them thou consentest, and followest whither they lead, and dost perpetrate those things which they wickedly suggest; thou art entirely carnal, whosoever thou art that dost correspond with this description -- thou art totally carnal. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)

Odysseus with the same treacherous smile, gave him to drink of the same cup, and struck him with her wand in the same manner; but when she saw him standing, unchanged and unmoved, threatening her with drawn sword, she feared exceedingly, and falling at his feet spake thus in pitiful tones: "Who art thou, that thou yieldest not to the power of my drugs, which never mortal resisted before? ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Tempore]): "Whereas thou shouldst excel thy wife in virtue, since chastity is a virtue, thou yieldest to the first onslaught of lust, while thou wishest thy wife to be victorious." ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Hast thou aught to say ere thou yieldest dominion to me? " ❋ Evelyn Everett-Green (1894)

Never shall Ismael share the heritage with Isaac, my own son, after thee, when thou yieldest up thy spirit from the body. " ❋ Lawrence Mason (1890)