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Axe. 1758. A. Murphy, The Upholsterer, Act i. An old crazy fool— your pardon, ma'am, for calling your father so.

1763. Foote, Mayor of Garratt, Act ii., Sc. 2. Mrs. Sneak. Where is the puppy? Sneak. Yes, yes, she is for me.

1861. H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, ch. vi. 'I her would she like to live in the great house, and she said no.'

1883. Echo, Jan. 25, p. 2, col. 3. To, considered but a vulgarism, for to ask, is good Saxon.

1871. (From Hoppe's Conversations Lexicon). Miner. 'Who'll turn the grindstones?' When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy, and throwing half his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an.

1888. Detroit Free Press, Sept. 22. William Black, the novelist, says the only a novelist has  is the climax.

1876. C. Hindley, Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 232. Stow your gab and gauflery, To every fakement I'm a fly; I never takes no fluffery, For I'm a regular.