yestereve
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yestereve
Example Sentences
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When yestereve was on the wane, I heard a clear voice singing So sweetly that, like summer-rain, My happy tears came springing: My human heart returned again.
From Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll
One yestereve, in the waning light, When the wind was still and the gloaming bright, There came a breath from a far countrie, And the ghost of a Little House called to me.
From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Fay Inchfawn
"My lord," said he to Kenric, who was sitting in the great hall with the abbot Godfrey Thurstan, "I have a strange thing to tell of an adventure that befell me yestereve."
From The Thirsty Sword by Robert Leighton
It is time, my son, that thou learned an answer to such questions as were put to thee yestereve by the pigs of Henry.
From The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Are they not those same tidings Which yestereve a courier bore to Pushkin?
From Boris Godunov: a drama in verse by Alfred Hayes
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