yesternight
Americannoun
adverb
Etymology
Origin of yesternight
before 900; Middle English; Old English gystran niht. See yester-, night
Example Sentences
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Here, by this rock it lay but yesternight.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
I saw by his Lordship's eye yesternight that he was much moved by what I told him.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
"And yet only yesternight the fair Constance took this road, and she was not afraid."
From The Coming of the King by James Hocking
The "five we supped with yesternight" were bound to Malta and Marseilles—we to Athens and Constantinople.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by William Young
"The same remark was made to me yesternight by one of my grandfather's guests," said he.
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton
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