Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Yield
Yielded like melted snow.
—James Fenimore Cooper
Yielded like the mist
Which eagles cleave, upmounting from their nests.
—John Keats
Yielded, like bruised limb to leech.
—George Meredith
Yielding as light.
—John G. Neihardt