Adjective : a timid, yielding man. ,a yielding mattress. From Dictionary.com.
“All right,” he said, looking at her weakly and yieldingly. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
For what he loved above all, and all along, was art that is yieldingly attentive to the life of its materials and to particular sensations of reality. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
“A little more — a little more,” said she, petulantly touching his hand with the forefinger, to make him incline the cup more generously and yieldingly. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
The ballet's central pas de deux, to music Britten named "Sentimental Sarabande," effectively shows off Ms. Mearns and Mr. Angle -- she, yieldingly; he, ardently. From Wordnik.com. [NYCB Goes Back to Core Values] Reference
"Well, it only makes fifty apiece," Francie yieldingly smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Reverberator] Reference
"It really is red-tape of Miss Todd," murmured Loveday yieldingly. From Wordnik.com. [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference
"No one but you could have said a thing like that," she observed mildly, yieldingly. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
Her figure swayed forward yieldingly as if she would give herself into the keeping of the sun-drenched, pine-soaked air. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
I remember closing my eyes an instant, yieldingly, consciously, as before the excess of something beautiful that shone out of the blue of her own. From Wordnik.com. [The Turn of the Screw] Reference
"A little more -- a little more," said she, petulantly touching his hand with the forefinger, to make him incline the cup more generously and yieldingly. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Charlotte was a pretty girl, blooming, fresh, rosy, with a pair of bold black eyes which at once denied and defied, and then, as it were, suddenly drooped yieldingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
The light wreath with its delicate white flowers, set off the beauty of her luxuriant hair; my arm was round her waist, and I felt how yieldingly she leant upon me, happy and trusting as a child, as we swayed in the dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Visionary Pictures From Nordland] Reference
It was seen, detached as it were, from her dark-mantled form; seen through the mist of the vapours which rose from the caldron, framing it round like the clouds. that are yieldingly pierced by the light of the evening star. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
It was seen, detached, as it were, from her dark - mantled form; seen through the mist of the vapors which rose from the caldron, framing it round like the clouds that are yieldingly pierced by the light of the evening star. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
Her beauty and her character appeared so essentially womanlike -- soft yet lively, buoyant yet caressing -- that you could scarcely place in her that moral dependence that you might in a character less amiable but less yieldingly feminine. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
It came yieldingly, willingly. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
The prints of earth most yieldingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
And yieldingly to linger by long walls. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Night] Reference
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