10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YESTEREVEN»
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
( ME. gisterneve; a ater form of yestereven] Same as yestereve-n. In hope that
you would come here Yester-eve. B. J onaon, The Satyr. yestereven (yes'ter-é'vn)
, adv. [< ME. yistereven, gusturcvyn ; < yester- + even2.] On the evening of the
day ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith,
1900
cried Alice breathlessly. " Aye, I have seen him — yestereven." " Yestereven !
How came you hither from Dorset sith yestereven ? " " I went not to him, Mistress
Alice ; he came to me. The Alderman is in London to-night." " In London ! To-night
!
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
Same as yestereven. In hope that you would come here' Y ester-eve. B. Jonson,
The Satyr. yestereven (yes'ter-e'vn), adv. [< ME. yister- even, gusturevyn; (.yester-
+ even2.] On the evening of the day preceding the present. yestereven ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith,
1914
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
< ME. gis- terneve; a later form of yestereven.] Same as yestereven. In hope that
you would come here Yeettr-eve. B. Jonson, The Satyr. yestereven (yes'ter-e'vn),
adv. [< ME. yister- even, gusturevyn ; < yester- + even?.] On the evening of the
day ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
5. 22. I love to watch how the day, tired as it is, lags away reluctantly, and hates to
be called yesterday so soon. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xiv. yestereve (yes'tér-év
), ado. and n. [< ME. gisterncve; a later form of yastereran Same as yestereven.
William Dwight Whitney,
1904
There is no rose like that of yestereven, In beauty and in grace, None by such
dear hands gathered, blessed and given, None that so holds for us the dreams of
Heaven — Oh, just because it was that yestereven None other can displace!
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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of Niblungs
Of thy deeds since yestereven? or whitherward wentst thou? " Then unto the
earth leapt the Volsung, and gazed with doubtful brow On the King and the
Queen and the Brethren, and the white-armed Giuki's Yet amidst all these in a
measure of ...
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The treasure-seeker's daughter
Reverend sir," said old Master Berrington, " I'll be bound for my good neighbours
that so they intend ; but in this poor parish your reverence knoweth 'tis no easy
matter." " Still, it must be done," replied the vicar, peremptorily ; " but yestereven I
...
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The Collected Works of William Morris: The story of Sigurd ...
... But lo, how the dawn comes stealing o'er the mountains of the east, And dim
grows Atli's roof-sun o'er yestereven's feast; Dim yet in the treasure-houses lie the
ancient heaps of gold, But slowly come the colours to the Dwarf-wrought rings of
...
William Morris, May Morris,
1911
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The Chambers Dictionary
adv yestreen (contraction of yestereven; Scot and poetic) yesterday evening. - -
yes terday the day immediately before today; (often in pi] the (recent) past. — adv
on trie day immediately before today; formerly; in the (recent) past. — yestereve ...