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ever adverb placed before the subject of a dependent clause. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland, occasionally New England]

1813 Hartsell Journal 100 the loock out mountain Is the Longes[t] mountain and strates[t] mountain and the biges[t] fase of a mountain that ever I saw. 1862 Lister CW Letters (June 11) I never herd guns fired before hit was wors than eney starm ever you herd. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 72 A herdsman who was out at the time, and narrowly escaped a similar fate, assured me that “that was the beatenest snow-storm ever I seen.” 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) The last one [=a deer] ever I saw in the woods, I killed it with a pocket knife. 1955 Ritchie Singing Family 48 You know a throwed joint ought to be put back into place as soon as ever it can be. 1998 Dante OHP-24 That was the first time ever I tried to preach.