Star. I beleeue we muſt leaue the killing out, when all is done. Bot. Not awhit: I haue a deuice to make all well.
1890 December 9,Thomas H. Huxley, “Letter to the "Times" on the "Darkest England Scheme"”, inEvolution and Ethics and Other Essays[1]:
Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced onewhit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.
But now another idea had obtruded itself, and was rapidly crowding his original intentions into the background. That American fortune was not to be sneezed at, nor was its possessor awhit less attractive.
Now I was eight and very small, / And he was nowhit bigger / And so I smiled, but he poked out / His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'
1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, inRailway Magazine, page 201, taken fromThe English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited everywhit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page78
