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