At all. [Similarly some for somewhat, and none for not at all.]

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1817.  If our readers are any like ourselves, we think they cannot help laughing at these parodies.—Analectic Mag., ix. 437 (Phila.).

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1823.  I much need [a nap], not having slept any for several nights.—Nantucket Inquirer, Dec. 2.

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1827.  It can’t be that he has been examined and cross-questioned, and differed any.Mass. Spy, Aug. 8.

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1833.  Aint tired any, air ye?—John Neal, ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 105.

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1843.  Suppose you could swear one of them kept a stud of wild tigers, would it help you any?—‘Cornelius Mathews,’ p. 85.

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1846.  The captain used to boast that he could pack a gallon without its setting him back any.—W. T. Porter, ed., ‘A Quarter Race in Kentucky,’ etc., p. 103 (Phila.).

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1846.  Well, the bear didn’t seem to mind him none.—Id., p. 190.

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1852.  Our adventurers slept none that night.—J. B. Jones, ‘Col. Vanderbomb,’ p. 198 (Phila.).

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1857.  Your words come down jest like rain spatterin’ on a rock. They don’t soak in any.—J. G. Holland, ‘The Bay-Path,’ p. 32.

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1869.  It is a good tune,—you can’t improve it any, just off-hand, in this way.—Mark Twain, ‘The Innocents Abroad,’ chap. iv.

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1875.  When you get into a dangerous place, don’t turn coward. That is n’t going to help matters any.—Mark Twain, ‘Old Times on the Mississippi,’ Atlantic Monthly, xxxv. p. 574/2 (May.).

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1880.  I had never danced any, and, though naturally diffident, I determined I would break the ice.—Peter H. Burnett, ‘Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer,’ p. 12 (N.Y.).

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1880.  The prisoners did not sleep any for several nights.—Id., p. 65.

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a. 1882.  The house-fly can only see a distance of thirty-eight feet, but that never bothers him any. He always manages to keep within thirty-seven feet of everything.—Detroit Free Press.

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1888.  You don’t want to fool with those Quakers any, and don’t you forget it.—Id., Oct. 6 (Farmer).

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