leastwise

• No sooner does he get a small windfall--leastwise, his mother gets it--than he cuts the trawlers, an' all his old friends without so much as sayin' `Good-bye,' an' goes off to Lunnon or somewheres, to set up for a gentleman, I suppose I don't believe nothin' o' the sort," returned the mate indignantly. —  The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea
• An' I know, too, that she's nuts on another man--leastwise has been afore all this happened, and I reck'n still continue to be. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
• "There be some that don't know good from evil in natur',--leastwise, they don't seem to have any eyes to note the difference; and what isn't born in a man or a dog you can't edicate into him. —  How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories
• I think he has been sent for--leastwise, the sergeant went away about an hour ago to report the taking of a deserter, found prowling about the side of the prison A deserter Yes, sir. —  The Iron Game A Tale of the War
• "Not once -- leastwise, that is to say ----" A guilty memory of Rosherwich made him bungle here. —  The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance

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