anes
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of anes
Middle English, Old English, equivalent to ān one + -es adv. genitive suffix
Example Sentences
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"Keep your rogueries and rascalities for the auld generation ye hae assisted to ruin; but leave the young anes alane to mind ither matters than dicing and horse-racing."
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James
Whether do ye like my yellow beads or my blue anes best?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
I hae seen mony a ane since, and far bigger anes; but she aye seems to my min' the biggest o' them a'.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
Swa wule anes bule hude; Ælches weies ouer spræden. feor from ælche castle; amidden ane ualde. þenne ne mai þe atwite; þe hæne ne þe riche. f.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
"It's no unlikely," said I; "I ken the maist o' the leevin folks o' the parish, and my faither kens a' the dead anes."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
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