onliest

“I cain’t say it’s the onliest happy time for me, ma’am. But they shore ain’t never been any to equal it!”

“Hit de onliest one I could find,” Luster said.

“Den he’s de onliest man here I’d try to fool,” he says.

Now the “onliest boxer in history that people asked questions like a senator” developed coherent answers.

“Your Maman has enough problem, enough sor-row. And you her onliest child. Is not right to make her worry so. You big now, Jeremie, for true, but you not have the judgment for the thing you get involved in. You not got experience, you know.”