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  • “Your Grace, who has pardoned so much, will excuse my throwing myself on your royal mercy for those expressions which were yester-morning accounted but a light offence.”

    Kenilworth 2004

  • I called yesterday morning (ought it not in strict propriety to be termed yester-morning?) on Miss A. and was introduced to her father and mother.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • I called yesterday morning (ought it not in strict propriety to be termed yester-morning?) on Miss Armstrong and was introduced to her father and mother.

    Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

  • And that was yester-morning: how then is the good turned bad? "

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

  • Grace, who has pardoned so much, will excuse my throwing myself on your royal mercy for those expressions which were yester-morning accounted but a light offence. "

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • My Lady Matilda told me but yester-morning that her Highness Hippolita knows something.”

    The Castle of Otranto 1764

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