[Ads-l] immediately if not sooner

[Jonathan Lighter]

Again, older than I'd have thought. All [N]:

1839 _North Wales Chronicle_ (Bangor) (Dec. 17) 4 : They want to see [it]
again immediately, if not sooner.

1853 _Monongalia Mirror_ (Morgantown, Va.) (Feb. 5) 3 : Immediately, - if
not Sooner!

1869 _Weekly Advertiser_  (Montgomery, Ala.) (March 9) 2 :  Immediately, if
not Sooner.

1891 _Minneapolis Times_ (Jan. 7) 8  : THOSE GALLING BONDS. Sufferers Ask
the Court to Sever Them Immediately, if Not Sooner.

JL

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