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