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1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xvi. 373 I cowde not doo therto, for I have be here sith yesterdaye evyn [Fr. depuis vespre].

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. L.iii^v A good iudgement in the Courtyer is sufficient for al this, which the Count saide well yesterday nighte that he oughte to haue.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxv. f. 241 Bee it knowne vnto you syr, yt yesterday morning my mistresse Iulietta left hir lyfe in this world to seke rest in an other.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. M His villanous Ganimede and hee ha' been droning a Tabacco Pipe there, euer sin' yesterday noone . View more context for this quotation

1654–5 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 26 Yesterday night came letters from Collonell Hacker.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4892/2 The Bridge was finished Yesterday-Morning.

1730 W. Wriglesworth MS Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 1 Aug. Yesterday afternoon unreeved the runing Rigging.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. vi. 77 She enquired how long he had left Suffolk? ‘But yesterday noon, ma'am,’ he answered.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xi. 101 Yesterday morning, when a letter was received from Mr. Wardle.

1869 E. D. E. N. Southworth Bride's Fate xxix. 392 Here is the Times of yesterday morning and the Express of yesterday evening, sir.

1907 L. J. Vance Brass Bowl viii. 202 Vain repetition of yesterday afternoon's fruitless task.

1962 Wilson (N. Carolina) Daily Times 17 Apr. 1/4 Raeford Flowers..announced the names of the new slate of officers for the coming year at the club's meeting held yesterday lunchtime at the Cherry Hotel.

2015 P. Hawkins Girl on Train 101 I spent yesterday evening sitting on the sofa in jogging bottoms and a T-shirt.