apast
Americanpreposition
Etymology
Origin of apast
1890–95; a- (semantically empty, perhaps a generalization of adverbial a- 1 ) + past; cf. anear, anigh
Example Sentences
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"A gal that ken jump a six-rail fence—and wissout no running start—don't let her git apast you!"
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
They won't come apast that scratch, and I kin skeer 'em off with this.
From Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor by Cobb, Frank
Fer here I stood, as a durn fool's apt To, and let that train jes chuff and choo Right apast me— and mouth jes gapped Like a blamed old sandwitch warped in two!
From Afterwhiles by Riley, James Whitcomb
At last: "Look a-yere, Seffy, it's about two inches apast seven—and by the time you git there—say, nefer gif another feller a chance to git there afore you or to leave after you!"
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
"Och, shure an' it wuz about three years apast."
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson
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