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Everybody else gits there first, and it's nossing for the fastnacht but weeping and wailing and gnashing of the teeth.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

Henry Wasserman diffidently intimated that there was a curious but satisfactory element of safety in being last—a "fastnacht" in their language, in fact.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney