Sae loud I hear ye lie: For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me.
Late late yestreen I saw the new moon Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And I fear, I fear, my dear master, That we will come to harm.
Yestreen I had a pint o' wine, A place where body saw na'; Yestreen lay on this breast o' mine The gowden locks of Anna.
Yestreen I met you on the moor, Ye spak na, but gaed by like stoure; Ye geck at me because I'm poor, But fient a hair care I.
We have here presented a graphic picture of rural fare on fete-days-- 'For here yestreen I brewed a bow of maut, Yestreen I slew twa wethers prime and fat.
Yestreen I soughtst to smoke my first cigar: It gav'st my system a tremendous jar!
Yestreen I dream'd a dolefu' dream; I fear there will be sorrow!
To which Geyti answers:-- "Therefore had I arrows twain Yestreenin the wood with me, Had I but hurt my brother dear The other had pierced thee.
I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
For late yestreen I saw the new moon, The auld moon in her arm:' 'Ohon, alas!
Late lateyestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.
The flower that smelld sae sweet yestreen Has lost its bloom wi thee; And though I'm wae it should be sae, Clerk Saunders, ye maun die.
Yestreen I saw the new new mune, And the auld mune in her arm; And that is the sign since we were born Even of a deadly storm.
The ship must sail the morn, and this without regard to the fearful portent of the new moon having been seen late yestreen with the auld moon in her arm.
Yestreen I was your prisoner, But now this morning am I free.
VII ‘Yestreen I rade this water deep, And my own gude lord beside me; But this night I maun wet my little pretty feet With a wheen blackguards to wade me.
In their young days lads o' speerit took their exerceese in comin' to see a bonny lass--juist as I was sayin' to Winifred yestreen nae faurer gane.
I had ancuch o' gettin' up yestreento last me a gye while.
He sailed yestreen in the Foaming Wave, the lazy rascal.
Even the St. Magnus smugglers, and another gang that Mr. Fox arrested yestreen up at Sandwick, have to be imprisoned here until the roads are opened up.
It was only yestreen I was speakin' wi' poor Colin at the inn.
Yestreen the Queen had four Maries, 25 The night she'll hae but three; There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beaton, And Marie Carmichael and me.
Yestreen the Queen had four Maries, This night she'll hae but three; There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton, And Mary Carmichael and me.
O weep na mair for me, ladies, Weep na mair for me; Yestreen I killed my ain bairn, The day I deserve to dee.
Yestreen I wush Queen Mary's feet, And bore her till her bed; This day she's given me my reward, The gallows tree to tread.
For lateyestreen I saw the new moon, The auld moon in her arm.
Late late yestreen I saw the new moone 25 Wi' the auld moone in hir arme; And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will com to harme.
Yestreen I rode this water deep, And my gude lord beside me; But this nicht I maun set in my pretty fit and wade, A wheen blackguards wading wi' me, 6.
Yestreen we had rather a hard bout of it in the Tent--the Glenlivet was pithy--and our Tail sustained a total overthrow.
At the other extreme stand relations like that with Anne Park, the heroine of Yestreen I had a Pint o' Wine, which were purely passionate and transitory.
An' I'm thinkin' she left her bonnie white coatie yestreento mak' a safter heid for the puir lamb.
Three times yestreen I heard the black dog summon me below the window.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yestreen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
