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Examples
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“Did he pass yester-evening?” said Vivaldi, eagerly.
The Italian 2004
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There is nothing to prevent your coming to-morrow; but, perhaps, to-day, and yester-evening, it was better not to have met.
Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854
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She would not admit, what I suspected, that Meri had induced her to run away; but said she was very happy in my house until yester-evening, when
The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845
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Providence when, yester-evening, the child told me you had been pleased to honour him with your notice.
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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There is nothing to prevent your coming to-morrow; but, perhaps, to-day, and yester-evening, it was better not to have met.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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You may remember, that yester-evening I said, I had still sufficient confidence in your candour to believe, that, when I should request an explanation of your words, you would give it.
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe 1793
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It was only yester-evening that you was here, — she was then as well as I am; who would have thought that she would be dead to-day?”
The Italian 2004
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"Only as I journeyed through it yester-evening on my way to this house.
The Refugees Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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