"Yesteryear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... round the shoulders of snake charmers and other bizarre and vanished contemporaries. The photographs are yellowed. They make a curious collection. They make the soulless piano sound a bit softer. A "where are the snows of yesteryear" motif ...
— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht
... chatter of the strings and the cunning commentary of woodwind and drums. Pathetic as its passing is, one cannot honestly regret the old school. I was looking last night at the programme of my very first hall, and received a terrible shock to my time-sense. Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the entertainers of 1895? Not one of their names do I recognize, and yet three of them are in heavy type. One by one they drop out, and their places are never filled. The new man, the new ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke
... on the sunny lawn Of yesteryear, to be my true companion, And bade me lead you with me from the dawn Into the shades of my predestined canon, How is it that I find myself alone Here in this ...
— The Five Books of Youth • Robert Hillyer |
