"Yestreen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gied the ministers a bit o' yer mind? 'The deil's amang the tailors' in gude earnest, as the sang says. There's Johnnie Crossthwaite kicked the Papist priest out o' his house yestreen. Puir ministers, it's ill times wi' them! They gang about keckling and screighing after the working men, like a hen that's hatched ducklings, when she sees them tak' the water. Little Dunkeld's coming to London ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... I heard yestreen a loudish noise Closely resembling the report of guns. H. Ay, you conjectured right. Those sounds arose From anti-aircraft guns engaged in practice Against the unlikely advent of the Hun. One must be ready in a war like this To face ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 10, 1917 • Various
... yestreen at my window; I set it yestreen, and to-day it sprang up: When I opened the latch and leaned out of my window, It shadowed my face with its beautiful cup. O lily, my lily, how tall you are grown! Remember how dearly I loved you, my own. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds |
