nurly

They say thet he nurly starved to death to git hit done.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

Up he jumps, and says he, 'I'll let you know in a few days;' then pullin 'from his trowsers pocket two little nurly apples, he laid 'em on the table as a present for Sally Ann!

The English Orphans Mary Jane Holmes 1866

"She tel 'im de site uv a man wuz medsin fer bad eyes, dat nurly all uv 'em wuz cut down in de war an' dat in konsquens it wuz er lonesum time fer wimmin; dey hev nobody now ringin 'de do' bells in de eebnin; no boys sendin ''em flowers an' 'fekshuns; no sweetarts tekin' 'em walkin 'on Sunday arternoons, an' weddins gwine out er fashun.

John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908

Times are mopish and nurly I don't mean to be scrumptious about it, Judge, but I do want to be a man, if I am a Breakneck, and havn't so much eddecation as the rest.”

Margaret 1851

"Wal -- in the mornin, the trail wur nurly blind, on account o 'the rain; an it tuk us a good spell afore we reached the gully.

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850