hesternal

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I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.

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  1. Of or pertaining to yesterday. [Rare.] I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers from the hesternal dissipation or debauch. Bulwer, Pelham, lvii.

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  • I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch. —  Pelham — Volume 04
  • There as he smoked and puffed, and looked out upon the bright crocuses, and meditated over the dim recollections of the hesternal journal, did Mr. Briggs revolve in his mind the vast importance of the borough of Buyemall to the British empire, and the vast importance of John Briggs to the borough of Buyemall. —  Pelham — Volume 03
  • There as he smoked and puffed, and looked out upon the bright crocuses, and meditated over the dim recollections of the hesternal journal, did Mr. Briggs revolve in his mind the vast importance of the borough of Buyemall to the —  Pelham — Complete
  • Life has few direr disenchanters than the morning smells of obsolete tobacco, relics though they be of hesternal beatitude. —  Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
  • I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch-light; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume, and write, in _Ipecacuanha_, —  The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
 

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