"Yestreen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... planted a lily 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. O ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... highest into the air, And all their faces does begary, If they could speak, they would them wary. * * But I have most into despite Poor claggocks[4] clad in raploch[5] white, Whilk has scant two merks for their fees, Will have two ells beneath their knees. Kittock that cleckit[6] was yestreen, The morn will counterfeit the queen. * * In barn nor byre she will not bide, Without her kirtle tail be side. In burghs, wanton burgess wives Who may have sidest tailes strives, Well bordered with ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... bield that gars the gear Is gone where glint the pawky een. And aye the stound is birkin lear Where sconnered yowies wheepen yestreen. The creeshie rax wi' skelpin' kaes Nae mair the howdie bicker whangs, Nor weanies in their wee bit claes Glour light as lammies ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... trying tae dig oot the front door yestreen, for it wud hae been drifted up again before morning. We've cleared awa the snow at the back for the prayer; ye 'ill get in at the ...
— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren
... "Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi' the auld moone in his arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... the roads sometimes bore a very striking aspect of solitariness. Our traveller, at last coming up to an old man breaking stones, asked him if there was any traffic on this road—was it at all frequented? "Ay," he said, coolly, "it's no ill at that; there was a cadger body yestreen, and there's yoursell the day." No English version of the story could have half such amusement, or have so quaint a character. An answer even still more characteristic is recorded to have been given by a countryman to a traveller. Being ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... but had the wit, yestreen, That I have learned to-day, I'd pinned the sister to her bed ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
... "Yestreen I made my bed fu' braid, The night I'll mak' it narrow, For a' the live-lang winter night I lie ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various |
