Eer a. Fielding and Smollett have arrow in this sense.
1749. I dont believe there is arrow a servant in the house.Tom Jones. (N.E.D.)
1771. I now carries my head higher than arrow private gentlewoman of Vales.Humphry Clinker. (N.E.D.)
1852. If he should lose ary one of em, it would break his heart.Seba Smith, Major Jack Downing, p. 392 (1860).
1855. Cuba was as necessary to our Government as ary one of the States.Id., p. 437.
1865. Yer nag is wuth ary two o my critters, said the man.E. Kirke, John Jordan, in Atlantic Monthly, xvi. p. 442/1 (Oct.).
1867.
Well, says old Bitters, I expect I can | |
Scale a fair load of wood with eer a man. | |
Lowell, Fitz-Adams Story, id. (Jan.). |