With random selections from Wolfe, Martin, and Tolkien, we have these examples:

Yet who could have said what it meant?

Yet how strange that Gunnie should sail the empty seas of time
to become Burgundofara again.
Yet the Lord of Gondor is not to be made the tool of other
mens purposes, however worthy.
Yet, Master Peregrin, to be only a man of arms of the Guard of
the Tower of Gondor is held worthy in the City, and such men
have honour in the land.
Yet, maybe, he would not have done so, and the journey of
Boromir was doomed.
Yet the slowness of my fall did nothing to allay the terror I felt
in falling.
Yet there is a way.
Yet the anima will not be erased in you by that writing.
Yet, though before all was won the Battle of Five Armies was
fought, and Thorin was slain, and many deeds of renown were
done, the matter would scarcely have concerned later history,
or earned more than a note in the long annals of the Third Age,
but for an accident by the way.
Yet I stood, as it were, at the bottom of a bowl.
Yet I will wed with the White Lady of Rohan, if it be her will.
Yet none were mine.
Yet you comfort me.
Yet it seems to me upon reflection to be not so strange after
all.
Yet sometimes, particularly in the sleepy hours around noon,
there was little to watch.
Yet, though you fight upon an alien field, the glory that you
reap there shall be your own for ever.
Yet I also knew there was truth in it, that it was a proximity in
time I felt.
Yet no attack came.