onest
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I knowed a bloke onest in civil life wot died a lingerin' death.
From A Student in Arms Second Series by Donald Hankey
Euclid was consulted, and recommended the "onest craft of good masonry," and the origin of the order is found "yn Egypte lande."
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton
All at onest I see one o’ them big water-hawks—osparay they call ’em—plunge down an’ rise up agin wi’ a catfish in his claws.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
“Seems to me like onest in an argument I did say somethin’ about having it here in the house,” Mrs. Lear admitted.
From Hoofbeats on the Turnpike by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
I am now inclined to suspect it no corruption at all, but only an erratic and obsolete superlative at onest.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
