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  • The petechiae may give way to ecchymoses (like a petechial rash, but covering larger areas) and other haemorrhagic phenomena such as melaena (bleeding from the upper bowel, passed as altered blood in the faeces), haematuria (blood in the urine), epistaxis Chapter 2
  • Clean, paved roads give way to dirt paths strewn with rubbish and open sewers. The Sun
  • Banana plantations and forests give way to volcanic cones and lava fields. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cars waiting to turn right on to Carleton Road from Skipton hold all the outgoing traffic up as cars coming into Skipton won't give way on a green light.
  • You wish to cause the people to rebel against the great Rabbi and the kahal, and you yourself give way before the enemy. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
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  • Commodities –Gold rose slightly this morning, up $7 to $747, while crude continues to give way, slumping $1 to below $56/bbl –following Asian stock market slide this morning.
  • Mundane words such as lesson plan, morning traffic, boyfriend, and tennis club would in an instant give way to medical terms such as skin graft, debride, burn unit, bum victim. Healed by Horses
  • On either side of it, the city seemed to give way entirely for the airway; it hung, suspended, like a floating river cutting through a steep, shining landscape.
  • The aged timber cracked and the roof began to give way, spraying us with a shower of dirt and small debris.
  • Thickets of flamboya, casuarina and sweet coconut give way to the arid Palmyra palm.
  • Spring flowers give way to those gum balls, woody balls covered with curved spines and containing one or two winged seeds.
  • The close-knit dramas of family life thus necessarily give way to an episodic tale that lurches from one eccentric encounter to another. Times, Sunday Times
  • With intracapsular cataract extraction, the entire lens is removed and the zonules give way, releasing the entire capsule while leaving no remaining supporting structure behind the iris. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Yet, there are enough Labour rebels that if the margin of victory dips below the triple digits and gets anywhere close to 50, the pressure on Blair to give way to Brown will be great.
  • They find it hard to charge for their services; they usually give way more than they ask for, and this means they scrape by.
  • The joyous soul, charioted from pleasure to pleasure by the graceful mechanism of well-formed limbs, will suddenly feel the axle-tree give way, and spring and wheel dissolve in dust. The Last Man
  • In a State where there is a sense of virtue, a powerful man ought not to give way to the ill-affected, or expose the government to those that are incapable of it, nor suffer high trusts to be committed to those who want common honesty. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • Attaching self-esteem so inextricably to this physical ephemeron is just all kinds of cringe-inducing from the long view, as one imagines hard-won confidence melting slowly away as rock hard abs give way to the dreaded "jelly belly" once again. I Want to Wrap My Self-Esteem in a Package of Improbable Preservation! Rah Rah Rah!
  • So as the powers that be cannot control drivers who fall asleep, drivers who fail to give way, drivers who drink, drivers who have prangs at intersections, or the sad state of our roads, they have announced a new idea.
  • A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea.
  • The rutted roads were thick with mostly male and coed groups, camped where the piñons give way to cottonwoods down by the creek.
  • But just as Sheen arrived and the ranks of the expedition were beginning to give way before the strenuous onslaught of the Judies, the latter, almost with one accord, turned and bolted into their playground again. The White Feather
  • But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
  • Isolated showers will give way to more generalized rain later in the day.
  • The belief in America's "differentness" began to give way, and American liberalism set itself free from the call of nationalism. The Foreign Policy Difference
  • The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give way until they were surrounded and routed by the missiles of the The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Yes | No | Report from connor wrote 1 year 20 weeks ago the hunters safty system is amazing all hunters should have onethey put stitches into the strap almost like hemming so that if you do fall the "hemming" will give way and reduce the quick snap you fell when your vest saves your life Whitetail Handbook: No-Fall Insurance
  • Here again it seems that the principle of determinism must give way to that of probabilism. Marco J. de Vries - An Existential–Spiritual View of the Nature of Man
  • Sometimes, you think, we are becoming soft, far more ready to give way to sloppy self-indulgent emotionalism than our parents and grandparents were.
  • When entering a roundabout, give way to any traffic already on it.
  • My legs were about to give way on me, my throat was dry and my eyes were probably the size of saucers.
  • The intense colour and elegant bouquet give way to a rich, full-bodied wine with ripe fruit and polished tannins.
  • The flowers eventually fade and give way to a gentle green mossiness.
  • History suggests such a connection could give way at any time - over almost any issue - and send Obama into the kind of nosedive from which other presidents never recovered. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • That nation's great culture of marked politeness, disarming courtesy and remarkable tolerance can give way to sheer bestiality, as the war proved.
  • The hope of these minorities is that a fissiparous Pakistan, with its history of dysfunctional civilian and military governments, will give way in the fullness of time to a sprawling Greater India, thus liberating Baluchistan to pursue its destiny as a truly autonomous region. Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
  • Eventually, the Colombian went down the inside of the quick right-hander into the Stadium section, but Raikkonen, despite being off the track, would not give way.
  • Sei Whale Skull, Chile : Inland ice fields give way along Chile's coast to a maze of islands and fjords.
  • Dr. Kenn, having a conscience void of offence in the matter, was still inclined to persevere, —was still averse to give way before a public sentiment that was odious and contemptible; but he was finally wrought upon by the consideration of the peculiar responsibility attached to his office, of avoiding the appearance of evil, —an “appearance” that is always dependent on the average quality of surrounding minds. V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue
  • The old political alignments are going to give way to new ones.
  • As you drift northwards and deeper, the spurs and gullies give way to a moonscape of boulders.
  • By now, the release of a Catherine Breillat film is a ritual: whispers of scandal give way to full-blown outrage and a polarized critical reception.
  • On finding one we would test its stability, and then cross it roped up to a partner who would potentially catch you dangling on the end of your rope should the thin ice bridge over the crevasse suddenly give way.
  • The Russian front in the south had begun to give way at the beginning of July, when Kirponos, with his tank strength exhausted, had been levered off the Rovno-Dubno-Ternopol axis and forced back at a pace, which daily gathered momentum, into the wide-open spaces of the Ukraine proper. Barbarossa
  • At the end of the film, however, the hot violence of the city street will congeal and give way to a pickup basketball game: Violence, in turn, gives way to sport.
  • The highest of the bluffs, on the west side of the canyon, were part of a massive geological formation in west Texas called the “caprock,” essentially a long seam of rock that underlies the Llano Estacado and becomes an outcropping just at the point where the high plains give way to the lower, rolling plains. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
  • Immense seascapes give way to more intimate, detailed pictures such as boulders on the beach at Lonbain.
  • He was left clinging inches above the rockface for an hour, praying the snow wouldn't give way. The Sun
  • Some have prognosticated that physical rack-mounted components are going to give way to software apps that can do the same work, and eat no rack space.
  • The flint paths give way to cropped grass and there is an absence of fences. Times, Sunday Times
  • Early cloud and mist in the eastern regions will give way to sunny spells and scattered showers or thunderstorms. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her teenage daughter, Mandy Ashley Rickards, is autistic, and that incipience can give way to utter chaos without warning. 'Incendies' Burns With Mystery, Truth
  • “I thought not, — I meant not,” said she, more and more confounded, “to submit to any indignity, though my pride, in an exigence so peculiar, may give way, for a while, to convenience.” Cecilia
  • Forecasters said the day would be cloudy early but give way to a partly sunny and breezy afternoon.
  • If Schiller and Goethe dare once to come out of their exile, then Nestroy's plum-pudding jinnee steps in their path, and they of course modestly give way to him. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
  • We see the packed profusion of exotic narratives give way to the barren emptiness of unpeopled landscapes. Times, Sunday Times
  • He dug out his key and stuck it in the lock, feeling the tumblers give way.
  • As this cloistered, claustrophobic existence begins to give way to outside pressure, the pathos of Lamb and Doggo's stories is made pitifully real.
  • Free society must fail and give way to a _class society_ -- a social system old as the world, universal as man. Bricks Without Straw
  • Mr Macmillan was, according to colleagues, prepared to give way with good grace when he could not carry the Cabinet.
  • In a lesser writer such use of anecdote could give way to whimsy, presenting quirky characters as allegory, tailoring encounters to fit a preconceived moral philosophy. Times, Sunday Times
  • When you push the heels of your hands into the dough, it should give way but not necessarily tear.
  • Atmospheric synths gradually enter the mix, only to give way to a piano interlude that lays the groundwork for the last few verses.
  • The intense colour and elegant bouquet give way to a rich, full-bodied wine with ripe fruit and polished tannins.
  • For example, at Magela Creek, northern Australia, hydrophilic palms and mangroves proximal to the waterhole give way to fire-prone sedges, grasses and paperbark on the dry floodbasin.
  • Cyclists may feel a little more inclined to use the towpath if pedestrians did not walk four abreast and refuse to give way until the last minute and dog walkers kept their dogs on a short lead and cleaned up after their dogs.
  • I saw no cautionary signs let alone stop or give way.
  • As old clerical models of liturgical prayer give way to genuinely ecclesial models, how will these new models relate to the inherited tradition of Anglican worship?
  • In the interests of good governance, 'territorialism' must be abandoned to give way to creative solutions for an improved system. Speech by Professor Kader Asmal, M.P. at the debate on the President's State of the Nation Address at the National Assembly
  • But, what you might call the "strong" versions of Polish dialects have mostly died out after WWII leaving "lite" versions (mainstream Polish with some regional features still hanging on) in their place and these continue to give way to standard Polish (I think being a modern Polish dialectologist is the linguistic equivalent of the Maytag Repairman). Languagehat.com: SILESIANS.
  • The elation at Edgbaston and Old Trafford may well give way to substantial deflation at not being able to win this latest battle and go 2-1 up.
  • We should have both lord and lown if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers. Act IV. Scene VI. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • In the love of the lady he will be succeeded by a gardener, who will be replaced by a monk, who will give way to an ostler, who will be deposed by a Jew pedler, who shall, finally, yield to a noble earl, the future husband of the fair Mathilde. The Paris Sketch Book
  • Then, quite unexpectedly, this may give way to a leafy square containing a glorious baroque church or a former palace. Times, Sunday Times
  • We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • Despite growing pressure, the Minister of State refused to give way.
  • Sweet, nutty aromas give way to butterscotch, roasted nuts, and pound cake.
  • The down-cycle is unfortunate but it will give way to an up-cycle, there is no doubt in our minds. The Sun
  • Dense jungle alternates with steamy rice paddies and, as pineapple groves give way to coconut plantations, working elephants come briefly into view.
  • Whether they are in any mood to give way is another matter entirely. Times, Sunday Times
  • Forecasters said the day would be cloudy early but give way to a partly sunny and breezy afternoon.
  • These musings will soon give way to the real purpose of their visits here: to report next Thursday's result.
  • A gust of cold wind met him in the street; March was declining to give way to April. LOADED QUESTIONS
  • I give way," was the characteristic of his attitude to Crashaw, and the rector suppled his back again, remembered the Derby office-boy's tendency to brag, and made the amende honorable. The Wonder
  • There is also some concern that people in many of the new developments within the county may give way to apathy due to an unestablished affiliation with the area.
  • In the most Belgicized areas, hill forts tended to give way to large settlements on lower ground, sometimes with their approaches defended by great running earthworks.
  • Since the car park was closed to give way to the planned development of the $300 million complex, visitors to San Fernando have been starved for parking and played cat-and-mouse with the police wrecker on a daily basis.
  • Slowly, the images of rehearsal give way to the ultimate performance, a heartrending yet minimalist staging of original choreography.
  • But religious fervour had to give way to material necessities, and the Tlascalan idols remained unsmitten, although their human sacrifices were somewhat stayed. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
  • In four new paintings comprising his recent solo show, ribbons give way to a system of lines and ovoid shapes contained within large geometric fields of color.
  • The two big glass doors fronting the building give way to a large entryway and a small set of stairs.
  • Orchestral openings build over time into driving rock anthems; violins and cellos give way to guitars and basses.
  • He was an extensive contributor, both in prose and verse, to the two first volumes of this popular periodical; but before the work had gone further, his health began to give way, and he retired to his father's house in Peeblesshire, where he died in 1834. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
  • He doesn't intend to give way to that. Times, Sunday Times
  • Forested slopes of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir give way to aspen-clad foothills and rolling sagebrush steppes that have the spongy look of muskeg, but two shades lighter.
  • Bucolic vistas of snowy woods and mountains soon give way to sunbathers when, at the end, Thompson swings through the south of France and Barcelona.
  • Not that they could give way to ­depression and gloom, for in organizations where bellyaching and rumor are rife—as they are in all armies—it was necessary to maintain an air of confidence at all times. An American Triple Threat
  • I tell Opposition Members that we shall not give way; we shall retain control over public spending.
  • In effect, they are a kind of ongoing social experiment in how long people can live in a state of chronic poverty, and dispiritedness, before their bodies give way and their health falls apart. November 2003
  • Police kept guard to prevent people from returning, warning that deadly gushes of water could surge down from the mountains as blockages of debris and mud give way.
  • The elder child may be made to give way to the demands of the younger one in order to keep the peace.
  • And so, presently, being determined to give way to no fancifulness, I avoided the boundary of cliffs, and kept more to that part which commanded the slope, up and down which we made our journeys to and from the island below. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
  • Just as castle walls gave way to gunpowder and the cannon, so too will present technology give way to new ideas and new tools of war.
  • Coconut and banana trees quickly give way to a dim still forest.
  • The flint paths give way to cropped grass and there is an absence of fences. Times, Sunday Times
  • A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea.
  • Menacing clouds of reverberating discord give way to toy piano chimes synchronized with chirping melodica, booming bass drum, and mournfully wheezing harmonium, all oddly juxtaposed with Steinke's warm guitar melodies. Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3)
  • But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
  • A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea.
  • It can be very treacherous and can give way at any time.
  • If the weave is loose enough, elastic stretching may give way to pulling through of the fibres to bring about a permanent change of shape.
  • He was left clinging inches above the rockface for an hour, praying the snow wouldn't give way. The Sun
  • Laws made in the seventh century could finally give way to the needs of the 21st.
  • In the pictures here were it a normal circumstance, the whaler is the give way vessel. ‘Capt.’ Paul Watson, COME ON DOWN! You’re the Grand Prize Winner in Bob Barker’s Animal Jihad! - Vladimir’s blog - RedState
  • Today's monochrome skylines may give way to a riot of biomorphism; buildings might look more like tumors than constructions as we know them. Archive 2006-06-01
  • To get even most of it, the shovel must give way to more delicate tools: airhose, palm-pick, perhaps even a toothbrush. On writing by stephen king
  • A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.
  • This is clearly symbolic: we lose contact with our true nature when we give way to acts of aggression, anger and harmfulness.
  • When they helicopter began to descend to the earth, the clouds from the sky had somewhat blown away, to give way to a clear starry night sky.
  • When you push the heels of your hands into the dough, it should give way but not necessarily tear.
  • If a perp fails to give way, a patrol car down the road makes the arrest.
  • Banana plantations and forests give way to volcanic cones and lava fields. Times, Sunday Times
  • Earthy, spicy notes give way to a crunchy palate of light berry fruit with a final rustic finish of mulberry jam.
  • The honeyed smells of garden flowers give way here to ranker scents: to the mingled fragrances of rot and stagnancy. GALILEE
  • However Charles saw Exclusion of the rightful heir as changing the monarchy from a hereditary, divinely appointed institution into an elective, limited office that could soon give way to a new commonwealth.
  • Let sentimental tears give way to sensible adieu.
  • Clean, paved roads give way to dirt paths strewn with rubbish and open sewers. The Sun
  • Today showers will give way to more general cloud and rain from the northwest and southern areas probably remaining dry through daylight hours. Times, Sunday Times
  • But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
  • Despite growing pressure, the Minister of State refused to give way.
  • Bungalows would give way to mansions, mansions to burned-out lots, and at every gas station, panhandlers waited in search of change. American Girl
  • At Magela Creek, northern Australia, hydrophilic palms and mangroves proximal to the waterhole give way to fire-prone sedges, grasses and paperbark on the dry floodbasin.
  • Lush forests of sweet gum trees and maples give way to brush that seamlessly becomes hilly terrain, then opens up to savanna-like plains.
  • But it is a matter of common civility and good manners for young limbs to give way to older ones. Times, Sunday Times
  • The platform creaked and groaned but did not give way.
  • The elegy, as real poems do, brings us to a place where words give way to the music of silence, where we approach the unsayable and bow before it.
  • Her legs would give way; she would fall down and soon lost the use of her legs altogether.
  • He says that the traditional approach to moving parts and products in North American plants - heavy conveyors - is going to give way.
  • A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.
  • Banana plantations and forests give way to volcanic cones and lava fields. Times, Sunday Times
  • As it was, the darkness of night was beginning to give way to the gloaming before daylight.
  • The time soon came when he was forced to give way before the march of newfangledness. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
  • The Cape Cod trip seems to have dislodged some old memories - they come crashing down, a bit like watching the polar caps give way, whoosh!
  • Only pray let her give way to her grief; much crying, even if it makes her cough for the moment, can do her no real harm, but stifling and swallowing _grief_ (which she The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
  • It is a startlingly brutal place where boiling geysers burst through mountain plains caked in salt, and jagged red rocks give way to massive sand dunes and desolate open salt flats.
  • Now, though I consider the title admirable, I believe it is not Mr. Darwin's but the Publisher's, as you are no doubt aware that publishers _will_ have a taking title, and authors must and do give way to them. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
  • Banana plantations and forests give way to volcanic cones and lava fields. Times, Sunday Times
  • For example, plains give way to rising mountain passes with steep cliff faces, and islands peek mysteriously out of lakes and seas.
  • Around 3,200 m sub-tropical give way to temperate species but humidity and epiphyte growth remain high. Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China
  • I kep 'on linger'n' 'roun' sorter keepin 'one eye on the rheumatiz an' de udder on de distemper, twel, bimeby, I begin fer ter feel de trestle-wuk give way, an 'den I des know'd dat I wuz gwineter gitter racket. Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings
  • The ‘rule of law’ would give way to a ‘rule of men’ who tyrannized their wives and their compatriots.
  • Hunting and tournaments, at least for some nobles, began to give way to a lively interest in culture and education.
  • The soft, mulberry fruits in Vina Morande give way to layers of fresh green peppercorns and vanilla spice.
  • Our route has taken us northwest through a fairy-tale landscape where the boreal forest, or taiga, begins to give way to more open land, or tundra.
  • A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea.
  • The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion.
  • The rutted roads were thick with mostly male and coed groups, camped where the piñons give way to cottonwoods down by the creek.
  • As we climb over the Clyde and uninterrupted views of high rise flats give way to a stunning vista, Wallace's mood lightens.
  • Castanet-like handclaps trigger long, guttural sax lines; electronics fly across the speakers and give way to free-blasting; and odd, pogo-dancing themes over bumpy drumming sound like punk interpretations of Parisian cafe music.
  • Early cloud and mist in the eastern regions will give way to sunny spells and scattered showers or thunderstorms. Times, Sunday Times
  • And when they cross the finishing line in front, concern and worry give way to exultation, binding you even closer to such heroes.
  • North-facing slopes are shrubbier at the low elevations (Caragana, Spiraea, Cotoneaster) and give way at about 2,500 m to a parklike forest-meadow mosaic in which the meadows are dominated by the grasses Festuca spp., Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
  • For instance, the new Ford-class carriers will be built with laser guns to kill incoming missiles, anti-torpedo torpedoes to deal with supercavitation technology, and electric catapults for launching UAVs in case fighter jets, with their human pilots, give way to enhanced remote-controlled Predators that can be re­fueled in the air. America’s Elegant Decline
  • Two of the best players in the NBA not only have fallen into an amazing groove of leading the way, they've learned when and how to give way to their supporting cast.
  • They give way to secondary branches and multiple bifurcations that reflect the path of dielectric breakdown within the soil-gravel horizon.
  • Traffic emerging from Bradford should then give way, which all except left - hand drive vehicles can do readily without being unsighted.
  • Menacing clouds of reverberating discord give way to toy piano chimes synchronized with chirping melodica, booming bass drum, and mournfully wheezing harmonium, all oddly juxtaposed with Steinke's warm guitar melodies. Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3)
  • Judicial notions of justice must generally give way to those expressed by Parliament where they are inconsistent.
  • In this condition it remains for seventeen days, when it throws off its embryonal membrane, and becomes detached from the shell.] [Footnote 24: It is a suggestive fact that these deciduous forms give way through histolysis to true larval forms, just as in some flies Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
  • An initial fruit hit of ripe bramble jam and dark chocolate give way to a well-balanced spicy mouthful of winter berry fruit and ginger.
  • When entering a roundabout, give way to any traffic already on it.
  • There, the rivers give way to a skein of smaller rivers and enter the salt sea.
  • Meanwhile, the royal cachinnation was echoed out by a discordant and portentous laugh from behind the arras, like that of one who, little accustomed to give way to such emotions, feels himself at some particular impulse unable either to control or to modify his obstreperous mirth. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • The close-knit dramas of family life thus necessarily give way to an episodic tale that lurches from one eccentric encounter to another. Times, Sunday Times
  • The taxi they were travelling in was struck side-on at speed when Robinson failed to give way at the junction of Haworth Avenue and Swain House Road.
  • Earthy, spicy notes give way to a crunchy palate of light berry fruit with a final rustic finish of mulberry jam.
  • I shall happily give way if he wishes to intervene.
  • He warrants the sounding-board neither breaking nor cracking; when he has finished one, he exposes it in the air to rain, snow, sun, and every kind of devilry, that it may give way, and then inserts slips of wood which he glues in, making it quite strong and solid. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The green seas of sugar cane give way to scared charred fields when the cane is cut, looking like dead alien landscapes. Zafra
  • After all, Bollywood musicals possess the same excessive sentiment and diluvial instrumentation as the modern American musical, but seldom does the former give way to maudlin or milquetoast outcomes.
  • Latin itself did not give way easily to the vernacular languages. The Times Literary Supplement
  • At no period of life was I ever what men call intemperate; I never was in the habit of intoxication [the italics are Poe's]; I never drank drams, et cetera; but for a brief period, while I resided in Richmond and edited the Messenger, I certainly did give way, at long intervals, to the temptation held out on all sides to the spirit of Southern conviviality. Edgar Allan Poe -- After Fifty Years
  • As it was, the darkness of night was beginning to give way to the gloaming before daylight.
  • I cannot see a way out of this mess for Israel; if they clampdown they will face even more censure from the world "community", if they give way to Palestinian demands then Israel will not exist in another 20 years. Archive 2008-09-01
  • A seaman's curse light on the folly that exposes planks and lives to such navigation; and all to burn some old timberman, or catch a Norway trader asleep! give way, men, give way! The Pilot
  • Flowers give way in fall to blackish berries which often persist into winter. Don’t Monkey Around: It’s time to trim your Monkey Grass « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • Today showers will give way to more general cloud and rain from the northwest and southern areas probably remaining dry through daylight hours. Times, Sunday Times
  • The establishment has to give way to youth. Times, Sunday Times
  • These coastal savannas intergrade with low coastal forest and scrub, which gradually give way to continuous moist forest cover further inland. Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
  • The dark compactness of the jungle, the steadfast but disorderly array of the forest, the blotches of verdant grass, the fringe of yellow-flowered hibiscus and the sapful native cabbage, give way in turn to the greys and yellows of the sand in alternate bands. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • Around the Barotse floodplain, seasonal waterlogging or flooding suppresses tree growth, and Baikiaea woodlands give way to grasslands. Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
  • Dark curls, cropped close to his skull, give way to a high forehead and a strong jaw.
  • In early April 1957, the Nabulsi government sponsored antiroyalist demonstrations, and for a moment it seemed as if the monarchy would be forced to give way to a full parliamentary democracy. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
  • He had expected her to weep and give way to despair when it came to selling all their joyfully bought early Victorian treasures, their quaint objects of art, their antimacassars, bead mats, repp curtains, veneered furniture, gold-framed steel engravings and pencil drawings, wax flowers under shades, stuffed birds, and all sorts of choice old things; but it was she who made the proposal. Tales of Space and Time
  • Benevolence would have to give way to the exacting standards of science.
  • I slumped and leaned against the trailer before my knees could give way underneath me.
  • Now, though I consider the title admirable, I believe it is not Mr. Darwin's but the Publisher's, as you are no doubt aware that publishers will have a taking title, and authors must and do give way to them. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
  • When we are alone, we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. A History of English Prose Fiction
  • The entrenched systems of control are beginning to give way.
  • Give way to traffic coming from the left.

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