yesternight
Americannoun
adverb
Etymology
Origin of yesternight
before 900; Middle English; Old English gystran niht. See yester-, night
Example Sentences
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She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Byron, May Clarissa Gillington
Here, by this rock it lay but yesternight.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
"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
"And yet only yesternight the fair Constance took this road, and she was not afraid."
From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James
The Secretary of the States here shewed me a Letter yesternight, that the Town spends 6000 pound of powder a day, and hath spent since the siege 250m pounds.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John
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