leastwise
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of leastwise
Example Sentences
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Where are the children, "adjudged the leastwise of the land"?
From Time Magazine Archive
“An’ that,” declared the clam digger, rising and getting ready to move on, “was the main reason why I left the sea; leastwise I never wanted to go sailin’ much in them parts again.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
"Iss, I did," he faltered: "leastwise, I gived un to Joan, but t'other wan had the radin' in it."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
I can talk, sir, leastwise I could when I was well; but it’s my humble opinion that that woman would have rapped out three words to my one.”
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville
He says something about 'em being Sublette quarters in a department-house; leastwise that's what I makes out of what he says.
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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