yestreen

• “In troth is he, Monkbarns; he was awa this morning by four o'clock, when the sea was working like barm wi' yestreen's wind, and our bit coble dancing in't like a cork.”

  The Antiquary

• “In troth is he, Monkbarns; he was awa this morning by four o'clock, when the sea was working like barm wi 'yestreen's wind, and our bit coble dancing in't like a cork.”

  The Antiquary — Complete

• “Praise be blest!" said Caleb to himself, "ae leaf of the muckle gate has been swung to wi 'yestreen's wind, and I think I can manage to shut the ither.”

  The Bride of Lammermoor

• ““Ou, just yestreen, after tey-time — afore ye cam hame yoursell galloping sae fast,” said old Joseph.”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “PS: For those reading and commenting on my "They breed like rabbits!" post of yestreen, my apologies.”

  Archive 2008-08-01

• “‘But I got a postcard yestreen sayin’ that the new Road Surveyor would be round the day.”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “While, though, yestreen flicking playing cards into a straw boater across the room in my penthouse-Altamont digs, feeling the gentle and substantial clarity and warm-wellness of a few carefully-chosen gin cocktails suffusing through my spirit, I was suddenly stirred by an insistent dimly audible voice from everywhere.”

  Downtown Charlottesville's Leading Public Intellectual at cvillenews.com

• “I shall find the half-peckit banes o 'a joop o' mine that stray'd yestreen.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832

• “Gorbals; "Ye was gey an 'fou when ye cam in here yestreen.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847

• “A sup sour ale's all I've had since I took the fell yestreen. ”

  Border Ghost Stories

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