wanst

• Why didn't you shoo -- shoo -- oot him at wanst, an 'not put -- ut him through hell's tor -- tortures like that, you bloody-minded ould dog! " —  The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
• 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

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