yonders

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English

Determiner

yonders

  1. Alternative form of yonder
    • 1940, The University of Missouri Studies - Volume 15, Issue 1, page 120:
      I see a horse on yonders plain Whose body's been but lately slain.
    • 1954, Ralph Steele Boggs, El folklore en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, page 91:
      Had me a cat, the cat pleased me, I fed my cat in yonders tree, cat went fiddle-i-fee.
    • 1975, New York Folklore - Volumes 1-4, page 185:
      As I went over yonders hill As ever rose free merly and time And there I met a young lady whose name was Elian Who used to be the true lover of mine.

Adverb

yonders (comparative more yonders, superlative most yonders)

  1. Alternative form of yonder
    • 1630, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice:
      Oh my good Lord, yonders foule Murthers done.
    • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss:
      “No,” said Mrs Moss, “but he's only in the potato-field yonders."
    • 1887, The Cosmopolitan - Volume 2, page 304:
      He pinted one man to rule yonders, and another man to rule yonders.

Noun

yonders

  1. plural of yonder
    • 1988, Dan Parkinson, The Westering, →ISBN, page 288:
      I wasn't interested in Westport. I never had been, except as a milestone. The yonders were still out there.
    • 2000, J. Lee Butts, Texas Bad Girls: Hussie, Harlots, and Horse Thieves, →ISBN, page 20:
      A HOLLER AND A HALF AND a few yonders from Sally Scull's ol' stompin' grounds around Egypt you'll find the little community of La Grange, population 3,951.
    • 2000, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Chaucerian Tragedy, →ISBN, page 121:
      At the end of this part of the depiction of Troilus's agony, he finally moves his gaze from the yonders of the past to the yonders of the present: "Lo, yonder is myn owene lady free, / Or ellis yonder, ther tho tentes be" (669-70).

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