I'll tell you why: they're not diamonds at all, only some fairish imitations-paste-that my Jo-si-ah bought."
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
Now I dessay it's a fairish long journey by rail?
"A Pair of Clogs"
Amy Walton
He was a longish, leanish, fairish young Englishman, not unamenable, on certain sides, to classification-as for instance by being a gentleman, by being rather specifically one of the educated, one of the generally sound and generally pleasant; yet, though to that degree neither extraordinary nor abnormal, he would have failed to play straight into an observer's hands.
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James