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I've no inclination to grace an Austrian gallows - or rot in a Brandenburg fortress, which is what'll happen if Bismarck ever learns the truth of our little soiree yestre'en.
Watershed 2010
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So yestre'en I put together my bloglist, and discovered to my horror that some of my favourite writers don't have site feeds.
Archive 2005-03-20 Laban 2005
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So yestre'en I put together my bloglist, and discovered to my horror that some of my favourite writers don't have site feeds.
Blogging From Bed ... Laban 2005
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I've no inclination to grace an Austrian gallows - or rot in a Brandenburg fortress, which is what'll happen if Bismarck ever learns the truth of our little soiree yestre'en.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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A watched un yestre'en, whiles the play was forward.
The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897
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He promised yestre'en, by the thorn tree in blossom,
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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And this is the word that Otter yestre'en hath set in my mouth;
The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865
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And the pavement where his footsteps yestre'en returning trod,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Why, it seemeth me but yestre'en that your father was no bigger than you.
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Most surely I knew nought, saving only that when I returned home yestre'en, my little maid told me Mistress Grena had been so good as to visit her, and had brought her a cake and a posy of flowers from the garden.
All's Well Alice's Victory Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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