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wanst

adv. (context archaic English) once

Usage examples of "wanst".

I can see goold wanst a year, whin some prominent citizen smiles over his newspaper.

There isnt a sowl in the counthry ud come within sight of that grave wanst the sun goes down.

If he was tight-fisted wanst, he was as close now as calcimine on a rough-finished wall.

Kenneth for he drove right past the place wanst be himsilf and the second time wid your humble servant, and the third time wid those black-gyards of policemen, who said it was most like he had made way wid his cousin, who stud in his way, and had been after rousing bad blood in the morning, but nobody will believe that same excepting the mistress--who is a wake woman, a mighty wake woman.