In any manner. Also No ways.
a. 1560. All those who are any ways afflicted.Common Prayer.
1842. We cant make them any ways comfortable here.Mrs. Kirkland, Forest Life (in Mich.), i. 114 (Lond.).
a. 1848. I cant crowd it into my narrow belief that Pauls mental machinery was any ways out of kilter.Dow, Jun., Patent Sermons, i. 82.
1848.
The slavery question aint no ways bewilderin. | |
North an South hev one intrest, it s plain to a glance; | |
Nothern men, like us patriarchs, dont sell their childrin, | |
But they du sell themselves, ef they git a good chance, | |
Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he. | |
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st Series, No. 5. |