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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"How d'ye stand on the proposition to have the town build a sidewalk up the hill apast the Congregational church, Deacon?"
From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington
"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
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
"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
Yassir, Sef, if you'd a-got yere at a inch and a quarter apast!
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
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