yesterday

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And North Carolina is such a contradiction to the precepts of institutions of higher learning, it should be shuttered, like, YESTERDAY.

From Washington Post

Ah, fill the Cup:—what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our Feet: Unborn TO-MORROW and dead YESTERDAY, Why fret about them if TO-DAY be sweet!

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by FitzGerald, Edward

It is a very, very good manifesto,—had it not a terrible YESTERDAY.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

YESTERDAY, October 1st, I was again at Count Salern's, and to-day I even dined with him.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig