wanst
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Let him be searched at wanst, and, although I don't say he has them, yet I'd give a hundred to one he has; she would never carry them while he was with her. "
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Art at wanst, they'd never give you a rap farden's worth of assistance agin, if you and they wor to die in the streets. "
— Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three -
Let him be searched at wanst, and, although I don't say he has them, yet I'd give a hundred to one he has; she would never carry them while he was with her. "
— Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One -
"Oh!" said he, "if I was a young man, as I was wanst -- but the young men now are poor, pitiful, cowardly -- I would -- I would;" he paused suddenly, however, looked up, and clasping his hands, exclaimed -- "forgive me,
— The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three -
Oh, could it be that you wor wanst -- a-- a-- a betther man -- a man that had a heart for fellow-creatures, and cared for them?
— The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three -
I never wint to school but wanst, an 'I remimber I threw the masther into a kiln-pot, an' broke the poor craythur's arm; an 'from that day to this, I never could be brought a single day to school. "
— Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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