As people reflect on their own experiences of the gaokao, what they remember more is the unyielding spirit of youth accompanied by the chirping of cicadas and the night breeze.
The pause was filled up by the intonation of a pollard thorn a little way to windward, the breezes filtering through its unyielding twigs as through a strainer.
Remembering these tragedies, a cold dread ran in the veins of those whose motto was " No surrender" — a dread which the very sight of Melanie's soft but unyielding face dispelled.
" You are too unyielding. Think how many mothers there are whose sons have brought them to public shame by real crimes before you feel so deeply a case like this."
His shirt, opened to the waist, showed a brown chest covered with thick black hair. Scarlett, still shaking with fright, thought how strong and unyielding that chest was, and she whispered: " Hold me, Rhett" .
It was as if Atlanta society, scattered and wrecked by war, depleted by death, bewildered by change, had found in her an unyielding nucleus about which it could re-form.