Wanst

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1863, W:Roger Quinn , The Heather Lintie: Being Poetical Pieces, Spiritual and Temporal... Chapter , Be the bye, I wanst knew art ould woman of that name. She was my darling Tibbie, but a notorious drunkard.
1838, W:Charles Dickens, w Chapter , Now, shut your eyes, and turn round wanst.' whispered the Grey Man. Shawn did as he was desired ; but, when he looked about, he was struck all of a hape to find himself standing in his own bawn....
1837, Charles Fenno Hoffman et al, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine Chapter , Wanst I was wo'th twenty thousand doll are, and I driv the saddling profession.