yestreen

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Berne, the centre of resistance, was taken, despite the heroic defence of the mountaineers who for five centuries had maintained in "bleak Helvetia's icy caverns" a "shrine of liberty" for all Europe DEJECTION: AN ODE 55, 1 of motto--*yestreen*.

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  1. noun Scots Yesterday evening.

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  • “Ay,” he said, coolly, “it's no ill at that; there was a cadger body yestreen, and there's yoursell the day.” No English version of the story could have half such amusement, or have so quaint a character. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • And aye the stound is birkin lear Where sconnered yowies wheeped yestreen, The creeshie rax wi' skelpin' kaes Nae mair the howdie bicker whangs, Nor weanies in their wee bit claes Glour light as lammies wi' their sangs Yet leeze me on my bonny byke My drappie aiblins blinks the noo, An' leesome luve has lapt the dyke Forgatherin' just a wee bit fou. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • I was readin' the papers yestreen," said David. —  The Garret and the Garden
  • He came by yestreen, and I thought, 'For a' there is sae muckle o' ye, ye look as though ye walked on air Thomas groaned. —  Foes
  • But when I heard of your fight yestreen, and how you begawked him that we are to mention no more, and of your skirmishes and by-falls with these gentry of your own land, my silly auld blood leapit in my briskit. —  Copper Streak Trail
 

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