yesternight
Americannoun
adverb
Etymology
Origin of yesternight
before 900; Middle English; Old English gystran niht. See yester-, night
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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
Gentlemen, I beg you take heed that yesternight a messenger was sent to Holland to invite His Majesty King Charles II to return to his throne.
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
"I would not live, sweetheart, to suffer what I suffered yesternight."
From A Maid of Many Moods by Virna Sheard
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
"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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