e'enamost

I can't get ne'er a wife nor ne'er a housekeeper, and I am e'enamost starved to death.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

We got it e'enamost in our full faces, an 'it cut like a knife; but 'twas jest as fur back as 'twas forwards, an' Mis 'Ruttger was as anxious to git home to her young uns as I was.

Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

And he lets go the pump-handle, and it flies up and hits the shelf and knocks off two plates and a cup, and Bubble, he's off with the mop-handle, chasin 'the old black hen and makin' believe run her through, till she e'enamost died of fright.

Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

Sunthin was the matter with that chimbly, and your uncle fixed it e'enamost a month ago.

Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World Oliver Optic 1859

"My hips is both broke, and I'm jarred e'enamost to pieces."

Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World Oliver Optic 1859

Hastings tell such awful things about it, it e'enamost

The Planter's Northern Bride 1854

The Yankees see further ahead than most folks; they can e'enamost see round t'other side of a thing; indeed some of them have hurt their eyes by it, and sometimes I think that's the reason such a sight of them wear spectacles.

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

I'd e'enamost as lives use the whip sometimes, as to be for everlastinly a-pullin 'at the rein.

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

They are becalmed, and they see us going ahead on them, till we are e'enamost clean out of sight; yet they hain't got a steamboat, and they hain't got a railroad; indeed,

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

The British navals had been a-braggin 'and a-hectorin' so long, that when they landed in our cities, they swaggered e'enamost as much as

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830