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Ifemelu wanted to say, “I don’t give her too many choices,” because she wished Kimberly would not be so sheer in her yieldingness; perhaps Morgan just needed to feel that her mother could push back.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Not inaptly has the one river—all gentleness, yieldingness, and suavity—won a feminine, the other—all force, impetuosity and stern will—obtained for itself a masculine, appellative!

From The Roof of France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

The sense of its smooth softness, its yieldingness, and the danger lurking beneath the flowing surface was acute.

From Nocturne by Swinnerton, Frank

Whether the common dislike of children to water has anything to do with its soft yieldingness to touch I cannot say.

From Children's Ways by Sully, James

Her small, plump feet melt to the ground like snowflakes; and her figure sways to the indolent motion of her limbs with a glorious grace and yieldingness quite indescribable.

From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Masson, Thomas L.