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. ❋ Unknown (1845)

"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." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

"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." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

“Ou, just yestreen, after tey-time — afore ye cam hame yoursell galloping sae fast,” said old Joseph. ❋ Unknown (2008)

PS: For those reading and commenting on my "They breed like rabbits!" post of yestreen, my apologies. ❋ LuLu (2008)

‘But I got a postcard yestreen sayin’ that the new Road Surveyor would be round the day. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2002)

I shall find the half-peckit banes o 'a joop o' mine that stray'd yestreen. ❋ Various (N/A)

Gorbals; "Ye was gey an 'fou when ye cam in here yestreen." ❋ Various (N/A)

A sup sour ale's all I've had since I took the fell yestreen. ' ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

'T was but yestreen he bade me sell his jewels for you. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Well, it's a funny thing, but I can't get rid of the impression that at some point in my researches into the night life of London yestreen I fell upon some person to whom I had never been introduced and committed mayhem upon his person." ❋ Unknown (1928)

QUOTATION: Late, late yestreen I saw the new moone, ❋ Unknown (1919)

'But I got a postcard yestreen sayin' that the new Road Surveyor would be round the day. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, ❋ Unknown (1909)

For late yestreen I saw the old moon in the sky, and she was nursing the new moon in her arms. ❋ Elizabeth Wilson Grierson (1908)

I cam here yestreen, and I can get nae water to drink like the water in the hills. ❋ John Buchan (1907)

I mind't as weel's yestreen, [remember, last night] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)