yonders

1. alternativeAlternative form of yonder.

   I see a horse on yonders plain Whose body's been but lately slain.

   1940, The University of Missouri Studies - Volume 15, Issue 1, page 120

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   Had me a cat, the cat pleased me, I fed my cat in yonders tree, cat went fiddle-i-fee.

   1954, Ralph Steele Boggs, El folklore en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, page 91

   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.

   1975, New York Folklore - Volumes 1-4, page 185

comparative more yonders · superlative most yonders

1. alternativeAlternative form of yonder.

   Oh my good Lord, yonders foule Murthers done.

   1630, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

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   “No,” said Mrs Moss, “but he's only in the potato-field yonders."

   1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

   He pinted one man to rule yonders, and another man to rule yonders.

   1887, The Cosmopolitan - Volume 2, page 304

1. pluralplural of yonder

   I wasn't interested in Westport. I never had been, except as a milestone. The yonders were still out there.

   1988, Dan Parkinson, The Westering, →ISBN, page 288

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   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, J. Lee Butts, Texas Bad Girls: Hussie, Harlots, and Horse Thieves, →ISBN, page 20

   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).

   2000, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Chaucerian Tragedy, →ISBN, page 121