Which preposition to use with yesterday
The story he told the court yesterday in the witness-box of his movements on the day of the murder is quite different to the story he told on his oath at the inquest on the body of Sir Horace Fewbanks.
If he died last night, (I saw him yesterday at a horse race,) he was turning ninety-eight, perhaps he got tipped over in the turn.
The show began yesterday with a grand concourse of all the farming people for miles around.
Divesting myself of that part of my nature which is comprised in the good, the beautiful and true, I betook myself yesterday to Wall Street and the Gold Room.
In less than a fortnight I heard the principal part was given to Elliston, who liked it, and only wanted a prologue, which I have since done and sent; and I had a note the day before yesterday from the manager, Wroughton (bless his fat face, he is not a bad actor in some things), to say that I should be summoned to the rehearsal after the next, which next was to be yesterday.
One of them, the chaudrie, headman of the village, being introduced to J.W., told him, the superintendent acting as interpreter, how the boys' school flourished, and how he and other Christians had gone yesterday on an evangelizing visit to another village, not yet Christian, but sure to ask for a teacher soon.
OrI fear I was not wholly myself yesterday for a time.
The yesterday of which I spoke had been swallowed up in the abyss of years, ages gone.
I ended my letter yesterday by telling you that I was about to embark for Singapore amid torrents of rain and growlings of thunder; but I little thought what was to follow on this inauspicious embarkation.
"You were talking yesterday about some men wanting the earth.
Misses and their mamma walked yesterday after dinner to see their cousin Alington.
To reject every conclusion of yesterday before the surer observations of to-day?is not that the best life we know?
"Yes," he continued, "I felt that I owed you and your sister a more complete apology than it was possible for me to make yesterday without impertinence.
Those two abolition incendiaries (Giddings and Hale) threw firebrands yesterday into the two houses of Congress.
But I did begin by really believing that beautiful faces had the best of it in the world, and I was feeling rather aggrieved because somebody described me yesterday as 'that girl in the first class who is always getting up head; she is short and rather stout and wears her hair in a knot at the back of her head?'
And, meanwhile, the men of her husband's generation clung to their old mansions, and were ornamental, certainly, and were, very certainly, profoundly self-satisfied; for they adhered to the customs of yesterday under the comfortable delusion that this was the only way to uphold yesterday's ideals.
A fray happened yesterday between the cat and the dog, during which the birds were overset, and the plants broken.
The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.
The last horse died yesterday down the canyon.
Your dress was yesterday like mine; And in the mud below the sea, You lived, a crawling thing like me.
" "The Thomas Roch whom I saw yesterday during my visit to the establishmentwhom I questioned in presence of the directorwho was seized with a violent paroxysm just as Captain Spade and I were leaving?" The officer observed the stranger with the keenest attention, in an effort to surprise anything suspicious in his attitude or remarks.
All the old categories had momentarily disappeared, and no one was astonished to find himself closer to the stranger of yesterday than to a friend of many years' standing.
Yesterday towards evening we went to the Schreckbrücke.