yester-years

Updated: May 13, 2025

Margaret could not but marvel at the flourishing proportion attained by the hours in those sunlit spring days; and at dinner, say, her thoughts harking back to luncheon, recalled it by a vigorous effort as an affair of the dim yester-years a mere blurred memory, faint and vague as a Druidical tenet or a Merovingian squabble.

James Branch Cabell - The Eagle's Shadow