yestereve

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A darkness yestereve, and from your lips

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  • It began yestereve, and all Ithilien was under shadow last night. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • No son Nor daughter have I left, nor other heir One son I had, who yestereve was slain Say to my Lord his coming I beseech Some rights to Spain the Emir has; to him I grant the realm in full, if he accept Let him defend this land against the French To meet Carlemagne good counsel I will give And victor he will be before this day A month. —  La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier
  • Now, as soon as she wist that Anichino was come, she took his hand in both her own; and keeping fast hold of him, she turned about in the bed, until she awoke Egano; whereupon:--"Husband," quoth she, "I would not say aught of this to thee, yestereve, because I judged thou wast weary; but tell me, upon thy hope of salvation, Egano, whom deemest thou thy best and most loyal retainer, and the most attached to thee, of all that thou hast in the house?" —  The Decameron, Volume II
  • "What else did we talk of yestereve, Master leech and I, all the way we rode with the misguided maid, but of the wicked deeds done in these last few weeks on the high roads, and here in this very wood? —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • And you were right yestereve, and peace shall indeed reign on earth, and above all betwixt you and me, everywhere and at all times till the E N D A POSTSCRIPTUM BY KUNZ SCHOPPER The children entreat me to write more of Margery's unfinished tale. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
 

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  1. from Middle English ʒisterneve; a later form of yestereven.
 

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