ev'n

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What airs in dress an 'gait wad lea'e us, an' ev'n devotion!

Roy M. Pitkin: Happy Birthday, Robert Burns 2009
At the altar: shouldst thou die ev'n there, thy blood

Ion 2008
At the altar: shouldst thou die ev'n there, thy blood

Ion 2008
"You wouldn't ev'n rekinize this place on Wednesday nights," he said

Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973
But long-contracted filth ev'n in the soul remains.

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
Who would not ev'n a _Lawreat's self_ commence 770

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
Why, ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell!

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
"Why all ther big guns war there Mandy; merchints, lawyers, docters an ev'n preachers."

Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne
Old Beaux, who none not ev'n themselves can please,

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
The hierophants of pure romance, ev'n in its recent mood,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 Various