Warn't

Warn't nobody embalmed dem days and de white folkses wuz buried in a graveyard on de farm same as de Niggers wuz, and de same oxcart took 'em all to de graveyard.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Warn't this drought app'inted before the foundation of the world?

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

Warn't scurcely half a dozen able seamen in the whole crew.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

Warn't no such time made on that road before nor since.

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

Warn't no pools in de churches to baptize folks in den, so dey tuk 'em down to de crick.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

"Warn't they expectin 'you at Cap'n Abe's?" the stage driver asked.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

Warn't it enough with their smoking and thundering,

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

"Warn't you talkin 'to my cousin awhile ago about the same thing?"

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

` ` Warn't nobody ter ask but de man what wuz hurryin 'ever'body to get out of de tent.

Polly of the Circus 1908

Warn't any side pockets in 'em, neither, fo 'him to hide his hands.

Rimrock Trail 1906