"Yester-evening" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his hardest; but having been pulling across the Jordan for nigh fifty years, the ferryman was little disposed to alter his stroke for the pleasure of the young man, who, he remembered, had not paid him over-liberally yester-evening; and in the mid-stream he rested on his oars, so that he might the better discern the great multitude gathered on yon bank. For baptism, he said; or making ready to go home after baptism, he added; and letting his boat drift, sat discoursing ...
— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore
... Yestereve, Death came, and knocked at my thin door. I from my window looked: the thing I saw, The shape uncouth, I had not seen before. I was disturbed—with fear, in sooth, not awe; Whereof ashamed, I instantly did rouse My will to seek thee—only to fear the more: ...
— A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul • George MacDonald
... Love's bright planet fell A darkness yestereve, and from your lips I heard cold words; then came a swift eclipse Of joy ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker |
