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Suppose it had been otherwise and I had been forced to face the world, how it would have hurt, for individual love is cruelly precious sometimes, and an "onliest" cannot in the very nature of things be as unselfish and adaptable as one of many I was selfish even when the twins came.

—People of the Whirlpool

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"The truth is so bad that when you put the words to it, it sounds silly and overdone... I'm not a carnival barker standing in front of a tent of wonders and extolling each as the onliest, greatest, stupendous that there is or will be You don't need to draw it out in big letters," she said. — 176 - Terror Wears No Shoes
Suppose it had been otherwise and I had been forced to face the world, how it would have hurt, for individual love is cruelly precious sometimes, and an "onliest" cannot in the very nature of things be as unselfish and adaptable as one of many I was selfish even when the twins came. — People of the Whirlpool
Whilest the Parents are indeavouring to gather and scrape all together that they can, that their Son, who is many times the onliest or eldest, may go forward in his study, and become perfect in one Faculty. — The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
It's de onliest way. " — Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
He's his mammy's onliest sweetest liddle Coon. — Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study