yonder

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'Tis some time since he went to his chamber--yonder, across the passage MARGIT Good; you may go The MAID goes out to the left MARGIT walks slowly across the hall, seats herself by the table on the right, and gazes out at the open window MARGIT To-morrow, then, Gudmund will ride away Out into the world so great and wide.

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  1. adverb In or at that indicated place: the house over yonder.
  2. adjective Being at an indicated distance, usually within sight: "Yonder hills,” he said, pointing.
  3. pronoun One that is at an indicated place, usually within sight.

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  • There's good blood in him And the two girls,--yonder, the other side of the hearth,--Adčle and Rose, have given over their little earnest comparison of views about the colors, and sit stitching, and stitching, and thinking--and thinking L Phil had at no time given over his thought of Adčle, and of the possibility of some day winning her for himself, though he had been somewhat staggered by the interview already described with Reuben. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
  • Here perhaps stood a lofty pine with several little ones around it, resembling a happy father with his children at his knee partaking of the fruits of his hunt--yonder, a cedar, lone and solitary as a man whose friends have all been killed by an unskilful autmoin_(5) in the Fever-Moon. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)
  • 'Tis some time since he went to his chamber--yonder, across the passage MARGIT Good; you may go The MAID goes out to the left MARGIT walks slowly across the hall, seats herself by the table on the right, and gazes out at the open window MARGIT To-morrow, then, Gudmund will ride away Out into the world so great and wide. —  The Feast at Solhoug
  • But with them women yonder, the title and the money and all the grandeur goes a long way. —  An Eye for an Eye
  • We most of us think everything ends when they plant us in the cemetery yonder, that is, if they put on enough rocks so the coyotes get discouraged Douglas shivered. —  Judith of the Godless Valley
 

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  1. Middle English, from yond, yond; see yond.

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  1. Also dial, yender; from Middle English yonder, ʒonder, ʒunder, yender, ʒender = Middle Dutch ghender, ghinder = Gothic (Moesogothic) jaindre, there; a comparative form of yon, with suffix -der as in hither, Anglo-Saxon hider, under, Anglo-Saxon under, etc.
  2. from yonder, adv. Cf. yon.
 

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