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  • Yesternight I received your lordship's of the 4th instant, with one to

    The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson

  • "Yesternight he lay inside the island that you can see yonder," said the peasant; "and you can slay him when you like, for he is waiting for his men."

    Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

  • Yesternight, Brown came as usual, and his flageolet on the lake announced his approach.

    Chapter XVIII 1917

  • Yesternight upon the staircase just a pair of boots outside

    Green Bays. Verses and Parodies Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Yesternight, in a dream, I heard the voices again, and I cannot recall what they said; but as I woke from sleep my pillow was wet with tears falling softly, as out of another world, and I saw before me thy face, pale and still, Naisi, and the king, with his implacable eyes.

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • Yesternight thou didst say that Kallikrates -- him whom thou sawest -- was thine ancestor.

    She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Yesternight, however, there arrives a despatch from Fraser, apprising me that the American Miscellanies, second cargo, are announced from Portsmouth, and “will probably be in the River tomorrow”; where accordingly they in all likelihood now are, a fair landing and good welcome to them!

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

  • Yesternight they had journeyed forth as far as Sinterspuhel, and there, at midnight, had stood at the cross-roads and shot with these same arrow-heads to the four quarters, to the end that they might dig for treasure wheresoever the shafts might fall.

    Margery — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Yesternight they had journeyed forth as far as Sinterspuhel, and there, at midnight, had stood at the cross-roads and shot with these same arrow-heads to the four quarters, to the end that they might dig for treasure wheresoever the shafts might fall.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Yesternight they had journeyed forth as far as Sinterspuhel, and there, at midnight, had stood at the cross-roads and shot with these same arrow-heads to the four quarters, to the end that they might dig for treasure wheresoever the shafts might fall.

    Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

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