no'm

"Oh no'm, indeed; Aunt 'Livia never shortens me," gently gasped the child.

Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell

"Oh, no'm -- she wouldn't mind at all!" said Bert quickly.

The Bobbsey Twins in Washington Laura Lee Hope

I'se plowed oxen too, now yu nuver see 'un kase dey's too slow; hit's autymobiles an' gas-run things, no'm, folks don't 'sider on de ways ov life lak dey use ter.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

"Oh, no'm!" agreed Charlie, and then he hurried outside, where Bunny and

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store Laura Lee Hope

"Oh, no'm, I guess he won't," Charlie said, as he dug away with the little shovel that Sue had been using.

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Laura Lee Hope

Us had ter take Garlic water -- no'm, not Garlic and whiskey, but jes 'plain Garlic water, an' hit wuz a bad dose too.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

I nebbah sleep on a bedstead till aftah freedom, no'm till [HW: asterisk] aftah freedom.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

"Yes'm -- no'm -- thank you, Aunt Polly," exulted Pollyanna, as she flew through the door.

Pollyanna 1912

Well, you know Mis 'Bowen, I ain't a bit slow, no'm, if I do say it, an' I jus 'thought hard for a minute, an' then it struck me!

Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

"Oh, no'm! no'm!" he answered, his eyes as big as saucers.

A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903