yesternight
Americannoun
adverb
Etymology
Origin of yesternight
before 900; Middle English; Old English gystran niht. See yester-, night
Example Sentences
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Ah! happy was I yesternight I trod the paths of love Within Elysian fields of bliss, Enchanted bowers above.
From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher
"Foolish I am—but sinful, nay; Born yesternight, I died to-day; In the green forest I was born, Where no sponsor, where no priest; Therefore unbaptized I come!"
From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various
Horatio says of the ghost: My lord, I think I saw him yesternight, and Hamlet declares: I'll watch to-night.
From Time in the Play of Hamlet by Edward P. Vining
"Word came yesternight that we had to repair to Hampton to join the army that the King leads across the Channel."
From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
I had thought it was safe in the pocket of my hose until late yesternight, but then I minded that ere I left the ship I put it into my wallet.
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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